Problem with a weird number displaying when I call abroad

Hello everyone, am hoping I finally found a forum where I could get an answer to my problem!

So here goes: it's happened to me a few times that when I call my friend who lives abroad to his foreign mobile, instead of displaying my own mobile phone number, his mobile displays a local landline number - as if I were in that country too!

Now, our operators claim this is IMPOSSIBLE. This is partly hilarious, partly worrying. I wasn't using a VoIP system nor did I call through any cheap numbers, just with the regular + in front of the number. Usually everything goes ok, but this happened three times with the same local landline number popping up. Any ideas what could be the problem? Has this happened to anyone else? Thanks in advance!

It really just sounds like a glitch with one of the networks that is being used to handle the call.

As long as your getting thru and the correct call charges applied I would not worry about it.

Funny tho.

I wonder has your friend tried calling the local landline number to see if its live ?

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Hi,

thanks for your reply. Yes it sounds like a glitch, but I'm interested in knowing what is physically going on and if anyone has ever experienced this - I find it very strange that the operators literally say that this cannot happen. Obviously it can, since it did, but either they are just completely unaware of this, or lying, for some reason (what ever that could be?).

Yeah my friend tried calling the number; for a long while it said it cannot be connected, then after we'd harrassed our operators several times it later on said the number is not in use. I don't know what is going on (or if this had anything to do with us calling the operators) but I really want to find out how all this can happen! This is so weird...