Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!chinacat!telecom-gateway From: 0003962594@mcimail.com (Eric Swenson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: 10XXX from Pay Phones Message-ID: Date: 2 Dec 89 17:30:00 GMT Sender: news@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG Lines: 17 Approved: telecom-request@chinacat.lonestar.org X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 546, message 7 of 8 If I walk up to a pay telephone and want to make a call (local or otherwise, same area code or different) without depositing coins, shouldn't I be able to dial 10777-0-[AC]-XXX-XXXX, get a BOING, and, assuming I have a U.S. SPRINT FONCARD, be able to dial my FONCARD number and complete my call? (I use US SPRINT as an example because this is, in fact, what I want to do, but I suppose my question could be generalized to refer to any 10XXX prefix). Isn't this part of what equal access was supposed to provide? (I've tried it, and after getting a BOING, before all 14-digits of my PHONECARD number are entered I get a recording saying that an invalid calling card number was used. I *CAN* make calls dialing US SPRINT's 1-800-877-8000 number and using the same 14-digit FONCARD number. I take it there is a difference between the two kinds of calls?) I believe it does work from my home phone (I have US SPRINT as my long distance carrier) to use 10288-0-[AC]-XXX-XXXX to select AT&T for a particular call, but what about pay phones?