Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!chinacat!telecom-gateway From: john@jetson.upma.md.us (John Owens) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Calling Cards Message-ID: Date: 29 Nov 89 15:07:41 GMT Sender: news@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG Organization: SMART HOUSE Limited Partnership Lines: 21 Approved: telecom-request@chinacat.lonestar.org X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 536, message 10 of 10 On Nov 19, 3:52pm, Pete Holsberg wrote: > I've looked at the small print but still can't tell the difference > between my AT&T Calling Card and my NJBell IQ card. [and a number of responses indicate that there is no real difference] There is one difference I have noted: the AT&T card-reader phones won't take the Bell cards, but will take the AT&T cards, even though the numbers are the same. Also, the one or two card-reading Bell-owned payphones that I've used won't take the AT&T card, but will take the Bell card (and will also take MCI and Sprint FON cards). Apparently, you can get cards from AT&T that are not in any Bell database, and which AOS's cannot use; they start with a number which is not a valid NPA. If I were to give our number to anyone except myself and my wife (like a kid away at school or something), I'd get one of these to avoid accidental AOS charges. John Owens john@jetson.UPMA.MD.US uunet!jetson!john +1 301 249 6000 john%jetson.uucp@uunet.uu.net