Wrong Country Caller ID

Darrelfromsk wrote:

even if that was so (would mean carrier changed way in last couple of days) I actually know the people who have called - it was both from a landline and a cell - they live down the street from me - no where near United States. Thankyou for your responses- I appreciate you trying to help

Canada uses country code 1.

Along with the United States, and twenty-some other countries and territories.

You are seeing the full telephone number for a Canadian telephone number.

Click the following blue text for the list of countries and territories that all share country code 1:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Numbering_Plan#Countries_and_territories

Your carrier is the source of the caller ID information; of the 11-digit number and whatever additional location-related information might be provided to your iPhone along with the Caller ID. Your carrier provides that information to your iPhone. Put differently, if the local folks are showing up with the correct telephone number and the wrong location, check with your cellular carrier.

+1 does not indicate long distance, it’s the Caller ID is provided by your carrier.

You’re now getting an 11 digit caller ID.

All of mine have been arriving that way for a while now.

Even the spammers spoofing the same telephone exchange present as 11 digits.

Reset your network settings, and failing that then check with your carrier.

But pragmatically, you’re getting an 11 digit caller ID as that’s how your carrier has chosen to present the ID.

Sorry for my snarky response. There may be a problem with your carrier; I’ve seen other reports of NPA 306 being incorrectly reported as United States. But that information comes from the caller’s network operator; the phone just displays what it has been “told”. If you go to your carrier’s website and log in, or if you look at your bill, what does it show as the origin of the calls?

Also, is it possible that the caller is using Wi-Fi calling or VPN that terminates in the US?

Did you ever get this figured out? Mine has randomly started doing this as well—if the number is not in my contacts it shows all (306) numbers as “United States”. I didn’t upgrade, update, or any thing different. And it Shows “United States” regardless of whether or not the +1 shows up in front of the caller ID number.

I’ve been having the same problem, I’m in Saskatchewan, and my provider is Telus. I called them and they know about the problem and said it’s a Apple issue not a network error. Not sure if that is true but I thought I’d add my two bits here.

Hi Darrel, My wife and I are both experiencing the same issue... we're with Bell but live in SK. When I spoke to Bell I was also told it's an Apple issue and it should be corrected in the next update.... yeah, right. No change and its been a couple updates. I think the problem lies with the carrier(s). I wonder if anyone who is with Sasktel is experiencing this issue.... I'll be following this thread and if I hear of a solution that works I'll share it here too. Cheers!

I agree... I think it may be the repeating towers and how they read the incoming signals. Some code was probably changed early this year with SaskTel's infrastructure changes. Perhaps it's a combo of Apple and the carrier/SaskTel issues. That said, I know nothing of how it all really works but it certainly is frustrating.

It would be interesting if anyone using Android phones have/are experiencing this issue.... that would help isolate the root of it I think. I know none of my friends or family who use Android are experiencing this.

Is Settings > General > Language & Region set up correctly?

+1 is not the United States, it is the North American numbering plan, which includes Canada.