Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!agate!telecom-request From: rborow@bcm1a09.attmail.com Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: I've Moved and Old MCI Calling Card Still Works Message-ID: Date: 29 Mar 91 00:01:55 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 37 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 250, Message 7 of 11 After reading Tim Newsham's account of his old MCI card still working after he switched carriers then moved, I was reminded of an odd sitaution which I experienced with my cellular carrier. I purchased my mobile phone in August of '89. I chose AT&T as the LD carrier [sorry, Mr. Higdon :-) :-)], without any hesitation. After all, I work for the company. Anyway, in November of that year, we went through the famous 312 split to 708. Since my beeper, home, etc. numbers are 708, and since I live in 708-land, I decided to take Cellular One's offer of quick, free switching to a 708 cellular number from my 312 number. Everything else -- the LD carrier, the cellular services and features, etc. would remain the same. There were no problems in this regard. Everything went fine. However, a couple months after I had my number switched to 708 (in January of '90, BTW), I was still getting bills in from AT&T for my OLD cellular number. No big deal, since I had a credit balance of 15c (wow!). Now, I KNOW I have been making LD calls on my present cellular number, and I KNOW AT&T is the carrier (the 700 thing confirms such). The "problem"? I ain't been getting amy bills for all my current LD usage on my cell phone. This has been going on for fourteen months. Imagine, *free* LD calling. Hmmmm... Mr. Newsham, I'm in the same boat you are. The statue of limitations according to the current tariff laws is 24 months (two years), so, if MCI doesn't get you within two years from your calls, you're off the hook. Same thing for me. I'll admit, though, that it's tempting to use my cell phone's call forwarding to forward it to, say, a certain #, then call my cell number and automatically and FREE of charge reach my LD callee. Might take a wee bit of effort to constantly reforward my cell phone everytime I want to make such a long-distance call (and cancel forwarding after completing such call), but it seems nice. Why don't I do it, then? Because working for the company, I have seen the poor, greedy fools who think they've gotten away with mounting up huge bills -- only to get nailed when they think they're scott-free. Besides, it's wrong.