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From: adamg@world.std.com (Adam M Gaffin)
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Subject: Re: MCI and Sprint Pitch 800 Service to Households
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Date: 25 Oct 90 01:00:43 GMT
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According to Frank Walter, an MCI spokesman, when you sign up for
their service, you just have to put an 800 in front of your home
number. Since a given number could be duplicated across scores of area
codes, you need the "security" code to tell the system where to route
the call. Each customer will be allowed to pick their own 4-digit
code, but the company will check them first to make sure they too, are
not duplicated somewhere, he says.
 
Robin Pence, a spokeswoman for Sprint, says they are just giving
customers their own unique 800 numbers. She says there has been some
talk of setting up a new 400 series of numbers when the 800s are
exhausted.
 

Adam Gaffin   Middlesex News, Framingham, Mass.
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