Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wugate!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: MCI Announces VISA-Phone Message-ID: Date: 29 Jul 89 05:04:35 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 21 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 262, message 1 of 11 On Friday, MCI Communications Corp. announced a new long distance billing arrangement in cooperation with VISA, U.S.A, Inc. Under this new arrangement, long distance phone callers will be able to use their VISA card and associated Pin to call anywhere on the MCI Network from any phone equipped with Equal Access. The caller will dial the call zero plus in the usual way, inserting a VISA card number and Pin when requested to 'enter the card number now'. Charges will be billed by VISA on a monthly basis, entitled (in most cases) VISA-Phone, or in a few cases as MCI. It is unclear to me at this time if prior arrangements are required with MCI to use VISA billing, or if those numbers are somehow now being installed right into a data base of acceptable cards/pins. Call MCI Customer Service for more information. Patrick Townson