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Date: Wed, 05 Jun 91 11:53:53 -0400
From: irvin@lombard.dartmouth.edu
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Subject: Re: New PIN for my AT&T Card? 
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In TELECOM Digest V11 #423, Joshua E. Muskovitz writes:

> I've been an MCI customer for years and I've ALWAYS (well, with one
> exception noted below) had my MCI calling card be the same first 10
> digits of my phone, and then a different PIN from the RBOC.  Makes
> sense to me.  All I have to remember is which PIN to use.

> The only time this didn't work was after my last move.  The MCI rep
> set up my account incorrectly (but issued cards).  After realizing the
> mistake, they cancelled service and set it up again (this time
> correctly).  This was in a matter of minutes.  But when they went to
> issue me a calling card (for the new account), the computer recognised
> that a card had been issued for that phone number and instead issued a
> scrambled card number.

US Sprint (or is it just Sprint now) hasn't issued FON Cards with you
phone number on it for sometime now.  A couple of moves ago the rep
told me my new card would be some random 14 digit number.  Not wanting
to have to memorize 14 random digits, I asked her if there was anyway
to request that my card have my phone number as the first 10-digits.
She said no way (security precautions -- something about people having
roommates and the security problems that brought about -- seemed like
hoky to me).  She did say that I could keep my present card number if
I wanted.  So I did.  Now two moves later (and two phone numbers
later), I still have my old FON card with my old telephone number on
it.  Seems strange when I get the bill and my 2 phone numbers are
listed followed by this old phone number from 1/2 way across the
country.


Tim Irvin