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From: dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (David Tamkin)
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Subject: Re: Call-Me Card
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Date: 21 Sep 90 18:35:26 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 665, Message 6 of 9


Mark Brader wrote in volume 10, issue 655:

| The examples given of who might want to use this card refer to family
| members.  The subtext, not quite stated, is: family members who
| couldn't be trusted not to run up your long-distance bill if you gave
| them your Calling Card number.

The subtext I gather is this: the Call-Me Card (I've also heard it
named a "Call Home Card" and simply a "restricted calling card") was
implemented for businesses to issue to employees who couldn't be
trusted not to make personal calls on a company telephone credit card;
with the restricted card, the employee could dial only to the
designated receiving number.

With the software in place, there was no overhead other than the
advertising to encourage its use for additional calls home by college
students and the like and thus additional IEC or LEC revenue.


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