I dial a number. It goes through just fine. I dial a different number with the same area code and get the “we’re sorry, you must dial 1”.
So,
1) why must I dial 1
2) why do they not simply dial 1 for me?!
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If they automatically dial 1 for you, then what happens when you need to do something like dial 9 first?
Sometimes on landlines in businesses for example, they have internal phone numbers so when you press 257 it connects straight to phone 257, it knows that 3 numbers is enough to make a call, like in a hotel.
Then if you want to make an outside call, you press 9 and the phone understands “a real phone number is coming after this 9”.
If as you suggest they always impose a 1, then what happens when you in fact do not want the 1 but need a 9?
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