Effective March 15, 2010, Rogers is further reducing Local Calling Areas across Canada.

What does this mean?

Local Calling Areas (LCA) are invisible geographic boundaries that determine which calls are billed as local calls and which calls are billed as long distance calls. Your LCA is the geographic area in which you can make or receive phone calls without incurring long distance charges. In other words, they are billed as local calls.

For the areas listed below, your LCA has been or will be reduced. What is Rogers/Fido reason for the change?:

The local calling area for the cities above will be changing effective the dates above to align with standard boundaries across the industry. These changes will provide you with clear boundaries of our local calling areas and may make your bill easier to understand.

Also note, the LCA is not a part of the contractual agreement that customers may have signed, so these changes are technically “allowed”.

LCA Examples

The examples below are based off the assumption that you live in Vancouver and you have a Vancouver number (but you can substitute any city):

Outgoing Calls

1.) If you are inside your LCA and make a call to a number outside your LCA, you pay long distance (you are in Vancouver and you are calling Toronto).

2.) If you are outside your LCA and make a call to a number that is inside the calling area that you are currently in, you no pay long distance as this is consider a local call (you are currently in Toronto and are calling someone in Toronto).

Incoming Calls

1.) If you are inside your LCA and receive a phone call, you pay no long distance as this is consider a local call (you are in Vancouver and you are receiving a call from Toronto or Montreal or Halifax, etc).

2.) If you are outside your LCA and receive a phone call, you pay long distance (you are in Toronto and receive a call from Toronto or Montreal or Halifax, etc).

Call Forwarding

1.) If you are forwarding a call from your Rogers phone to a local number within your LCA, you pay no long distance as this is consider a local call (you are in Vancouver or another city and you are forwarding your calls to your home in Vancouver).

2.) If you are forwarding a call from your Rogers phone to a number outside of your LCA, you pay long distance (you are in Vancouver or another city and you are forwarding your calls to your friends house in Toronto).

Affected Areas

Below are the affected areas effective March 15, 2009. They are sectioned by Province/area:

British Columbia

• Abbotsford
• Aldergrove
• Campbell River
• Chilliwack
• Comox
• Cranbrook
• Dawson Creek
• Duncan
• Fernie
• Kamloops
• Parksville
• Penticton
• Port Alberni
• Prince George
• Quesnel
• Salt SpringI sland
• Squamish
• Whistler
• Williams Lake

Alberta

• Banff
• Bonnyville
• Camrose
• Canmore
• Fort McMurray
• Lethbridge
• Lloydminster
• Medicine Hat
• Red Deer
• Westlock
• Wetaskiwin

Quebec

• Alma
• Chicoutimi
• Drummondville
• Granby
• Joliette
• Sorel
• St. Hyacinthe
• St. Jean
• St. Jerome
• St. Jovite
• St. Sauveur
• Valleyfield
• Victoriaville

Ontario

• Belleville
• Brockville
• Bracebridge
• Carleton Place
• Cornwall
• Elliot Lake
• Espanola
• Huntsville
• Kirkland Lake
• Lindsay
• North Bay
• Orillia
• Pembroke
• Perth
• Peterborough
• Sault Ste. Marie
• Smith Falls
• Simcoe
• Sudbury
• Vankleek Hill

Greater Toronto Area

• Aurora
• Cobourg
• Georgetown
• Barrie
• Newmarket
• Oakville
• Oshawa
• Pickering
• Milton

Additional cities and current local calling area changes can be found here:

Rogers