Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 16 Jun 91 03:24:08 GMT From: Bill Huttig Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: What Was the Real Reason for Change in AT&T Cards? Message-ID: Organization: Florida Institute of Technology, ACS, Melbourne, FL 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 461, Message 2 of 8 Lines: 22 In article ole@csli.stanford.edu (Ole J. Jacobsen) writes: > not been fully divested until now. The new calling card system is the > final stage of divestiture as required by law.." As far as I know it is true that this was one of the requirements. > 1. Old AT&T cards are now being accepted by other carriers. I have The old AT&T cards are not accepted by other carriers. The LEC cards are accepted by the other carriers. They contain the same PIN as the AT&T card did. > 2. As metioned in the Digest already, with the new cards, billing will > be (I presume) handled by AT&T directly and thus no (costly) > arrangements with the RBOCs need to be in place. The new cards will be billed along with your AT&T 1+ charges to the LEC if that is where you requested billing.