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Saskatchewan phone numbers showing up as from the United States on caller ID just a glitch

By CJME News Jun 2, 2020 | 4:36 PM

If you see a number you don’t recognize coming from the United States on your phone, it’s probably just a technical hiccup.

Some SaskTel customers are seeing incoming calls with the 306 area code, but labelled as coming from the United States in the caller ID.

Greg Jacobs, a communications officer with SaskTel, said the company is working “as quickly as possible” to fix the issue.

However, there is a temporary fix you can do yourself.

“It is worth mentioning that this issue appears to happen with callers who are not stored in a device’s contact list, and adding these numbers to the contacts list may help prevent this issue from reoccurring,” Jacobs said in an email to 980 CJME.