the number you called is out of service

[gunar]

Have you ever been told that people get this recording when they try to reach you? I have been.....
Now, I must say that I have never been late making any of my payments to Cingular or any other creditors in my life. (ok...maybe since collage ) The recording is obviously bogus and the fact of the matter is it happens once in a great while, but it still irritates me to no end when I hear people mention that they got this recording when they called. I use my cellular phone number as my primary contact number. What I am trying ta say is the next call coming to it could be my wife asking me to pick up a loaf of bread from the store on my way home or a potential of a very luceretive contract from a "future" client. Only I fear that the "future" client may not call back if they get this recording. (God knows I probably wouldn't if I thought the person I am going to trust with my business is not even responsible enough to pay his/her bills.)
The reason why I am posting here is because a coworker of mine mentioned that it only happens with Cingular lines. Is there any truth to his statement, does this happen with other carriers as well? I welcome all your comments and thank you in advance for your time.

[strunke]

Originally Posted by gunar

Have you ever been told that people get this recording when they try to reach you? I have been.....
Now, I must say that I have never been late making any of my payments to Cingular or any other creditors in my life. (ok...maybe since collage ) The recording is obviously bogus and the fact of the matter is it happens once in a great while, but it still irritates me to no end when I hear people mention that they got this recording when they called. I use my cellular phone number as my primary contact number. What I am trying ta say is the next call coming to it could be my wife asking me to pick up a loaf of bread from the store on my way home or a potential of a very luceretive contract from a "future" client. Only I fear that the "future" client may not call back if they get this recording. (God knows I probably wouldn't if I thought the person I am going to trust with my business is not even responsible enough to pay his/her bills.)
The reason why I am posting here is because a coworker of mine mentioned that it only happens with Cingular lines. Is there any truth to his statement, does this happen with other carriers as well? I welcome all your comments and thank you in advance for your time.

I'm sure it happens w/other carriers, I have never encountered it though with outher carriers. But is seems to happen a lot more with Cingular.....

[TelcomJunkie]

It can happen on any network depending on the callers location in relation to their home area and if they did 10digit dialing or not.

For example, say your number is 8185551212 and my number is 8185551213. Now I'm physically in the 626 area code and I try to dial your number 5551212 I can get that message sometimes. But if I redial it with the area code it goes through perfectly.

[SteveW]

Originally Posted by gunar

Have you ever been told that people get this recording when they try to reach you? I have been.....
...

The reason why I am posting here is because a coworker of mine mentioned that it only happens with Cingular lines. Is there any truth to his statement, does this happen with other carriers as well? I welcome all your comments and thank you in advance for your time.

Hadn't encountered this issue until recently, but my mother told me a few days ago that she got that message when calling me (from her home land line). Since we live in different states, I'm pretty sure she always uses 11 digit dialing, but who knows, she might have gotten confused.

Even so, if my exchange doesn't exist in her area code, she should get a message to dial 1 and the area code. If my exchange does exist in her area and that number happens to be disconnected, I could see where she might get this message. This is easy to test, obviously.

If something else is going on, and Cingular gives this message when the call doesn't go through for other reasons, that would be bad indeed.

[Charlyee]

There is one person who has the same area code as me but I dial 10 digits anyway from my contact list, that I have got that message more than once. I call from my home area and when I told him about it and he said that a few other people have also complained and he has no clue what is going on.

We are both on Cingular.

[Mobile Mike]

I test called my Cingular line recently and got the same thing!! What gives??

[josephd]

This scares me as I am on the doorstep to a new job, all I need is HR call me for further instructions and have this happen.

[SmArTeStChIlD421]

Cingular circuits have been known to overload easily......Consumer Reports commented on it.........but if your having a problem like theat it definitely is a problem with Cingular because the call is routed to a Cingular Mobile Telephone Switch and it would be Cingular delivering that message i say you all call and submit a trouble tickets.