Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: "Joel B. Levin" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Sprint Billing Practice Message-ID: <10704@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 10 Aug 90 21:10:29 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 27 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 558, Message 11 of 11 From: John Higdon >Still not apples to apples. If you dial 10333+0+, you will have to >enter in or give the operator an AT&T card number -- your FO(O)N Card >won't work. Unless you dial 800 877-8000, Sprint won't accept its OWN >CARD NUMBER! At least AT&T accepts one number for alternative billing >no matter how you make your call. Not necessarily. I still don't understand what happened exactly, but: I was visiting my parents in Tucson and I called home. Forgetting that they default to Sprint, I placed the call using my AT&T Universal number. After entering it, a Sprint operator came on and requested the number. I gave it again and he told me it was a number private to AT&T and he couldn't use it. I tried my New England Telco number (which has worked at payphones with all three main carriers and a number of smaller ones), but the one that worked was my FON card number! If I had entered my NET number at the bong in the first place, all this might never have happened. JBL levin@bbn.com ...!bbn!levin (617) 873-3463