Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!lll-winken!telecom-request From: newsham@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Timothy Newsham) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: I've Moved and Old MCI Calling Card Still Works Message-ID: Date: 27 Mar 91 01:18:35 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 39 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 245, Message 6 of 8 Once upon a time a door-to-door MCI salewoman came'a rappin on our door. I invited her in and sat humbly as she pitched the glory of switching to MCI to me. Alot of the information was exaggerated and overblown -- little did she know that I was a telecom enthusiast and saw right through her. I chuckled inside. I had already been a subscriber to US Sprint and AT&T at one time or another so to complete my experience with all three of the big LD players, I submitted. The fact that I had an AT&T Calling Card and a US Sprint FON card, but not an MCI Calling Card also influenced my decision since I wanted to complete my collection (through talking to the MCI rep I discovered that only 1+ MCI customers could get an MCI Calling Card). After three months with MCI, I decided to switch back to AT&T since I had been dialing 10288+ on all my LD calls to get my calls on AT&T's Reach Out America (and AT&T said that if I switched to another LD carrier, I wouldn't be able to use my Reach Out plan -- they were wrong. Sometimes I wonder if they're reps have ever heard of equal access). So about a year passes by after I switched from MCI back to AT&T. I pull out the ole' MCI Calling Card that was supposed to be cancelled nine months previous when I switched subscribers. I try it. It still works. On top of that, I am no longer living at the same address that MCI was billing my MCI account to -- so this MCI Calling Card has a billing address that I am no longer living at. Nor is the forwarding from my old address to my new address in effect any longer. So what happens to the bill I could possibly accumulate on this card? I'd imagine that MCI would cancel the card ... but it's several months later and the card is STILL working. I suppose MCI is waiting for me to accumalate a few hundred bucks worth of calls on it, and then they'll come hunting for me. Any thoughts or experiences from other TELECOM Digest readers on this?