Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Wed, 29 May 91 10:39:03 EDT From: S M Krieger Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: New PIN for my AT&T Card? Message-ID: Organization: Summit NJ Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu 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 409, Message 2 of 10 Lines: 42 Douglas Scott Reuben writes: > I just got this in the mail from AT&T: > In a few weeks, you will be receiving a new AT&T Calling Card to > replace the AT&T Calling Card you now carry. > When it arrives, you'll notice that your new card looks different. It > even has a DIFFERENT ACCOUNT NUMBER FROM YOUR CURRENT AT&T CARD. > So does this mean that we will all need to know at least *two* PIN > numbers now? I already have my new AT&T Calling Card. Here is my understanding of it (DISCLAIMER: based entirely on the literature I got about it). It is more than a new PIN; it's a 14 digit number totally unrelated to the phone number. This number will be accepted by the local phone companies for intra-LATA calls, but it will not be accepted by other long distance carriers. (I believe the Calling Card number on the Universal Card works the same way.) This new calling card number (although I haven't tried it yet) will also be linked to the Reach Out America plan (which in my case, I pay $2.00 a month extra for no surcharge on Calling Card calls after 10:00pm and all day Saturday and Sunday until 5:00pm). From other literature I got (as well as phone call I made to AT&T confirming it), the new AT&T Calling Cards would not be sent to Universal Card holders, as they (we?) already have an AT&T Calling Card Card number. But Universal Card holders who are also Reach Out America customers (like me) can request the AT&T Calling Card so that an AT&T Calling Card number can be linked to the home phone number (the Universal Card number can't) for ROA discounts. Stan Krieger All opinions, advice, or suggestions, even AT&T UNIX System Laboratories if related to my employment, are my own and Summit, NJ do not represent any public or private att!attunix!smk policies of my employer.