Siri Can't Dial a Certain Number (But Can Dial All Others)

[Vlad Soare]

Hello,

There's one contact in my phone that Siri won't call. Whenever I try to call it via Siri, it looks like it's working for one second, but then she says 'Sorry, Vlad, I can't call xxx using that number'.
There must be something about this particular number that Siri doesn't like. The only thing that's different for this contact is that the number is a "green" one. That is, the local area code is 800, which in Romania means a number that's free of charge. It's the number of our company's teleconference system.

In short:

1. I'm not in roaming. I'm in my home country, dialling local numbers.
2. All my contacts' numbers are stored in international format.
3. The number in question is definitely correct. I can dial it manually, and it works.
4. Siri can call any other contact, but not this one.

Is it because of the local area code? Is Siri designed only to call numbers with certain local area codes? Or maybe the other way around, is it designed not to dial certain local area codes?

Thank you.

 

[Liam Steven]

Where I live we have legacy five-digit local area codes and Siri won’t call them; it simply doesn’t understand the number and perceives the first digit of the number as the sixth digit of the area code.

 

[Vlad Soare]

I see. So it's probably a built-in limitation, and I can't do anything about it.
Frankly, I don't see why Siri should care about the local area code. I think it should simply dial all the digits sequentially without overthinking it. But who knows, there may be a reason for it, which I'm missing...