For verizon, does it cost to call someone from the same area code?

Question

i have verizon and i was just wondering if it costs to call someone from the same area code using a home phone.

im using a home phone to call another home phone with the same area code.

Answer 1

its local it cost less cause its local  

Answer 2

There are some basic types of calling rates: Local (Local Exchange Service or LES, usually about 12 miles from where you are calling), Local Toll / Regional Toll (intra-LATA) , Expanded Local Exchange (kind of a combo of local and toll), Long Distance Toll (interLATA), and international.

Area codes don't really have anything to do with what you are charged. For example, the person who lives across the street from you might be in a different area code. It depends if you are calling outside of your local exchange (LATA). If you are calling in state, the call would most likely be a toll call, not a long distance call.

So to answer your question more directly: possibly, unless you have an unlimited (flat-rate) calling plan, your call within the same area code may be a toll call.  It depends if the area code expands outside of your LATA and/or the person you are calling is in another LATA.  As for the price, there are so many different calling plans that there is no way to calculate your cost unless I knew the answers to the above information and your cost for those rates.  The best answer would be calling your phone company's customer service.

If this is temporary and in fact it is a toll or long distance call, the cheapest way to call would to buy a calling card from the 99 Cent store. You can get 99 minutes for 99 cents (that's 1 cent a minute).