Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!pacbell!ames!xanth!ginosko!rex!ukma!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: fuat@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Fuat C. Baran) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: AT&T Calling Card/NY Tel Calling Card Message-ID: Date: 8 Aug 89 01:32:51 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: "Fuat C. Baran" Organization: Columbia University Center for Computing Activities Lines: 29 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 280, message 4 of 7 New York Telephone started a bboardish sort of thing called Info-Look and they said that I would need a New York Telephone calling card. So I applied for one and about two weeks later received a blue New York Telephone calling card (with 14 digits). As I was putting it in my wallet I noticed that it had the *SAME* 14 digit number as my white AT&T calling card which I ordered last year (and which took 8 weeks, plus multiple calls to the 800 order number). Does anyone know what the difference is? Obviously they can't tell which card I am using based on the number, so the service will be the same. Why do they bother making a distinction in the name and appearance of the card? I called New York Telephone to ask, and got a silly response: "use your AT&T card for long distance calls and NYTel card for calls within NYTel's domain" despite the fact that the paper that came along with the NYTel card says I can use it from anywhere in the US. Just curious. --Fuat -- INTERNET: fuat@columbia.edu U.S. MAIL: Columbia University BITNET: fuat@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu Center for Computing Activities USENET: ...!rutgers!columbia!cunixc!fuat 712 Watson Labs, 612 W115th St. PHONE: (212) 854-5128 New York, NY 10025 [Moderator's Note: AT&T and the Sisters Bell use the same data base for calling cards at the present time. PT]