Unreachable Phone Number?

I tried to call a long-distance phone number today from my office (in downtown St Louis) to central/northern Ill. After I had dialed the number, I got an error recording telling me I didn’t have to dial the “1” before the area code (which I knew was wrong, because I should have had to). Then when I dialed it without the area code, I got a message saying “the mobil phone at this number is unavailable”. So I dialed the toll-free number for customers, and told them what happened, and they said the regular area code and number is to a regular land-line; it’s their front office phone number, they verified it over eht phone.

  • It’s not real important but I’m curious; is there any way to dial “out” of an area in this situation?
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Did you try it with the area code, but without the 1? That may work but from where you say you’re calling from and to it doesn’t make sense to me.

      • I tried this first: 1 XXX XXX-XXXX.
        And the recording told me not to dial the one.
        When I dialed without the one, it connected to somebody’s (?) unavailable cellphone. I may bother the phone company about this tomorrow… I yam stumped…
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As a last resort you could just ask the operator to connect you. I’ve done this before when I had a phone that (for whatever reason - too long ago to remember) would not let me dial certain numbers.