Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!iuvax!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: la063249@zach.fit.edu (Bill Huttig) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Fictious Account Numbers: A Useful Service of Pacific Bell Message-ID: <3590@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 6 Feb 90 16:37:49 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Bill Huttig Organization: Florida Institute of Technology, ACS, Melbourne, FL Lines: 19 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 80, message 8 of 10 In article <3548@accuvax.nwu.edu> optilink!cramer@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Clayton Cramer) writes: >They have no problem giving several such account numbers on one phone >line. (Of course, if you are dialing from home, you'll need to do >credit card billing using the fictious numbers, but that's a small >nuisance). >This would seem like an ideal way to handle the traditional "end of >the month roommates figuring out the bill" problem. AT&T offers a service called call manager where you place your call kind of like a calling card call and your bill is sorted by the 2 digit codes you picked. Bill