Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: nobody@nowhere.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: How Do I Obtain a Phone Calling Card? Message-ID: Date: 28 Jul 89 10:12:34 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Columbia University Lines: 24 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 260, message 8 of 8 X-GATEWAY-WARNING: original 'From' value not a legal address X-Originally-From: Andrew Boardman X-GATEWAY-WARNING: original 'Date' value too old for posting X-Original-Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 10:45:45 EDT In article msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu writes: >I know for a fact that MCI does NOT require that they be your home >default carrier. I talked to an MCI rep yesterday about my (soon to be former) MCI calling card; I was told that because of a recent policy decision, they would let anyone hold a card for a maximum of a month without associated "dial 1" service (MCI marketing-talk for being the default carrier) on my line. The original purpose of my call had been to register another address change with them; the actual exchange for the number on the card (212-280) died last year and I have moved a few times since with no problem, but this time I was told that any new address/phone number I gave them for billing *would* be assigned MCI. (I had been using them for one high-volume area in which they were marginally cheaper than ATT; I have no wish to deal with the three-ring circus that is MCI's version of billing on my NYTel bill.) I would not be suprised, though, if two MCI operators had entirely different ideas of what "standard MCI policy" was, considering their past level of service. Andrew Boardman, yet another disgruntled (and soon to be former) MCI customer. ab4@cunixc.columbia.edu ab4@cunixc.bitnet {backbone}!columbia!cunixc!ab4 [as of the retransmission, amb@heathcliff.cs.columbia.edu wil wrok better, or simply amb@cs.columbia.edu]