Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Tue, 11 Jun 91 13:54:24 EDT From: Raymond C Jender Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: New PIN for my AT&T Card? Message-ID: Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories 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 450, Message 8 of 11 Lines: 23 In article gdw@gummo.att.com (Gordon D Woods) writes: > In article , by wah@zach.fit.edu (Bill > Huttig) writes: >> I was surprised that the number 253 was used as Carrier ID and not 288 >> like the PIC. It would have made more sense to use the PIC's. > What is a PIC? I've seen it several times and no one has defined it. > [Moderator's Note: His reference was to the five-digit carrier codes > which can be used at the start of a long distance dialing sequence > to route the call via a particular carrier; i.e. 10222 = MCI; 10777 > = Sprint; 10288 = AT&T. These are a few, there are many more. PAT] Pat, Just to clarify, the PIC is the Presubscribed Interexchange Carrier. It is the carrier of choice that is assigned to a subscribers line for all non-10XXX dialed interlata calls. It is the XXX portion of 10XXX.