Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 3 Jun 91 20:10:32 GMT From: Steve Bellovin Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: New PIN for my AT&T Card? Reply-To: Andy Sherman Message-ID: Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, 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 419, Message 3 of 9 Lines: 43 In article , DREUBEN@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Douglas Scott Reuben) writes: > So does this mean that we will all need to know at least *two* PIN > numbers now? > And how is everyone supposed to know that "If it's a local call use my > BOC card, while if it's an inter-LATA call use my AT&T card"? How many > people actually can tell in advance what is a intra- compared to an > inter-LATA call? Caveat: this is not authoritative, but I did ask somebody about this. Right now, the LECs supply card verification services to the IECs. With the new cards, that relationship will be reversed. AT&T will supply card verification service to the LECs for an intra-LATA call billed to an AT&T Card. This is already being done by the Universal Card people. You can bill intra-LATA calls to your Universal Card, but without the 10% discount applied to AT&T calls. Note that AT&T will *NOT* be providing card verification to other interexchange carriers. This should deal with the oft-expressed concerns of our customers that they not be billed by an AOS for calls placed on an AT&T Card. I hope this sets your mind at ease. > Now I don't consider my friends, parents, and relatives to be all that > ignorant on how to use a telephone, but I just can't see how THIS is > going to be explained to them by AT&T and/or the BOCs. AT&T and the > BOCs sure didn't do a good job when it came to warning people about > AOSs until quite late in the game; I am wondering how much more > confusion this nonsense will cause. Tell them to use their AT&T Card. Period. Andy Sherman/AT&T Bell Laboratories/Murray Hill, NJ AUDIBLE: (908) 582-5928 READABLE: andys@ulysses.att.com or att!ulysses!andys What? Me speak for AT&T? You must be joking!