Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: langz@asylum.sf.ca.us (Lang Zerner) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Access Code for Mercury (UK) Message-ID: Date: 7 Jun 89 22:42:22 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: langz@asylum.UUCP (Lang Zerner) Organization: The Great Escape, Inc. Lines: 23 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 191, message 5 of 9 I do not recall the access code (it has been several months since I left the UK), but they will give it to you if you ask. I bought Mercury service without one of the expensive feature phones they sell. The person I spoke with didn't know the code, but called me back once he found it. By the way, the access code can differ from one STD area to the next. Also, I found that, even where the access code was the same I couldn't use my secret code outside of the STD of the home phone for which I bought the service. I called Mercury about that and the service person looked into it for me. Apparently, they are not authorized to provide "traveling service codes". Service is ostensibly tied to your phone, really to your STD. They were working on getting equal access-type service when I left In February. By the way, as I understand it, they aren't the only company *allowed* to provide an alternative to BT, but the only company that *does* provide it. Other companies are working on it. (Remember when MCI was the only viable alternative to ATT? :-) -- Be seeing you... --Lang Zerner ARPA:langz@athena.mit.edu MX:langz@asylum.sf.ca.us UUCP:bionet!asylum!langz "...and every morning we had to go and LICK the road clean with our TONGUES!"