Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1991 15:46:34 GMT From: "A. Satish Pai" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: New PIN for my AT&T Card? Reply-To: "A. Satish Pai" Message-ID: Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven CT 06520, USA 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 5 of 9 Lines: 51 [Brian = bicker@hoqax.att.com (Brian Charles Kohn). SE = someone else.] SE> "When it arrives, you'll notice that your new card looks different. SE> It even has a DIFFERENT ACCOUNT NUMBER FROM YOUR CURRENT AT&T CARD. SE> (Emphasis added). In order to comply with government requirements, SE> AT&T is no longer sharing card numbers with your local telephone SE> company. Now, AT&T is issuing new card numbers that are exclusive to SE> AT&T." SE> So does this mean that we will all need to know at least *two* PIN SE> numbers now? Brian> Actually ... the new calling card number will be different from ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Brian> your phone number. It will be a new 14 digit number to ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Brian> remember. I don't understand the above statement. My Calling Card (issued two years ago) has a number that is not my home or other phone number (in fact I didn't have residential phone service when I applied for the card). I've seen promotional literature from AT&T saying explicitly that you don't need to have a phone number of your own to get the card. And the number has 14 digits, too (except that they're all on the card, there is no PIN, unlike the Universal Card). So what's the difference from the older cards? One thing different that I _have_ seen (in pictures of the new card in ads) is that the "international number" seems to have an extra six digits prefixed to it compared to the one on the older cards, and there is a two-digit "authorization code" also on the card. Since I haven't got any notification from AT&T about my Calling Card, I presume that I can still use my card according to the instructions I received when I got it. Does this mean, then, that there are actually two different ways of calling internationally with AT&T cards? What are the extra digits there for on the newer cards? Satish Internet: Pai-Satish@CS.Yale.Edu | A. Satish Pai UUCP: ...!{uunet,harvard,decvax,ucbvax}!yale!pai | Bitnet: Pai@YaleCS | +1 203 432 1286 [Off.] Mail: Box 2158, Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520 | +1 203 436 2061 [Res.]