Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!problem!compus!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!bu.edu!telecom-request From: wah@zach.fit.edu (Bill Huttig) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Question About MCI Personal 800 Number PINS Message-ID: Date: 22 Feb 91 17:12:20 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Reply-To: wah@zach.zach.fitt.edu ( Bill Huttig) Organization: Florida Institute of Technology, ACS, Melbourne, FL Lines: 30 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 151, Message 5 of 8 In article newsham@wiliki.eng. hawaii.edu (Timothy Newsham) writes: > My question: Does that mean that other people will have the same 800 > number as you, and the call will be routed to the correct person > depending on the four digit number they enter? I think that you are talking about the posting I made ... in one of my past postings I said that a MCI representative said there will be about 3000 PIN's per 800 number. [Pat wrote:] > more common 800 number, callers from rotary dial phones have no way to > insert the PIN. I don't know how they get through, or if they do. I If a PIN is not dialed in quickly enough a MCI/Telecom*USA operator will ask for the PIN (or if a incorrect one is dialed he/she will ask for the whole 800 number and PIN). Bill [Moderator's Note: I wonder if these numbers are virtually nobn-blockable or if there is some point at which if enough people (among the 3000 possible per number) are calling the number it will return a busy signal, leaving your caller to ask later 'why was your line busy?' (when in fact you had not been talking.)