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From: JMS@mis.Arizona.EDU
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Subject: RE: AT&T Universal Card is Not Two Cards in One
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Date: 28 Sep 90 06:24:51 GMT
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In article <12654@accuvax.nwu.edu>, lotus!rnewman@uunet.uu.net (Ron
Newman) writes...

>An AT&T Universal card does NOT have a real phone number embossed on
>it.  

Not only that, it CANNOT have a real phone number on it.  When I
applied for the card, I asked if I could have my home phone number on
it (since my interest in memorizing yet another ten digit number waned
years ago), and was told "yes."  After getting the card, I called in
(as instructed) to change my "calling card code," and found that I
could not.  The excuse was lame: how will we be able to tell your
calls apart (duh, how do you tell them apart NOW, jerkos?), but I was
firmly assured in useless doublespeak that what I wanted was not
possible.  And while I kept the card, my few days of joy at the wonder
of not having to memorize another calling card number ended RATHER
abruptly.

Also: someone asked about getting card encoders/decoders.  They're
easy to get; one source for us (here at Arizona) is the company we buy
our mag-stripe door openers from, Elko in Chicago somewhere.  They're
expensive, about $1000, but if you want one...


Joel M Snyder, The Mosaic Group, 627 E Speedway, 85705  Phone: 602.626.8680
(University of Arizona, Dep't of MIS, Eller Graduate School of Management)
BITNET: jms@arizmis  Internet: jms@mis.arizona.edu  SPAN: 47541::uamis::jms