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From: long@CIC.CS.NET.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Marketing a little-known (to the average joe) "feature"
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Date: Sat, 31-Oct-87 20:16:17 EST
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I subscribe to Expressphone so I can tell you a bit about it.  In my exchange,
which doesn't yet have equal-access, you get a local phone number to call and
an account number to dial at the "second" dial tone before dialing your long
distance number.  The calls, which I gather go through MCI, show up on your
monthly Amex card bill as yet another purchase (with full AT&T style billing
detail).  You also get a 950 and 1-800 number from which you can do AT&T
calling-card type calls (the calling-card number is your home phone number plus
a 4-digit extension that is different from the AT&T card's).

It would seem a logical extension to Expressphone as I know it to convert those
services to 10xxx calling (where available) but I don't have first-hand
experience with that.

Dan Long
BBN Laboratories
long@bbn.com

(My only connection with Expressphone or Amex is that I send them money every
month.  They certainly don't send me money.)