Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: How Do I Obtain a Phone Calling Card? Message-ID: Date: 12 Jul 89 13:37:38 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Rutgers - The Police State of New Jersey Lines: 20 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 233, message 6 of 9 I know for a fact that MCI does NOT require that they be your home default carrier. In fact, they will give you a card with appropriate credit references if you don't have a phone. In addition, they have been very good to me about allowing my MCI card account to carry over the summer, after my school phone is disconnected in May. (I end up in a different dorm room each year, which means a new phone number every year.) I just call before I disconnect, and they take the residential service off of the account, but leave the card active with the same number. Then, after calling NJ Bell to establish the new number in August, I call MCI, close the old account the day before Labor Day, and request a new account with a new card. Mark -- Mark Smith | "Be careful when looking into the distance, |All Rights 61 Tenafly Road|that you do not miss what is right under your nose."| Reserved Tenafly,NJ 07670-2643|rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!msmith,msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu You may redistribute this article only to those who may freely do likewise.