Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!amd!eager From: eager@amd.UUCP (Mike Eager) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: MCI calling card Message-ID: <718@amd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 19:05:17 EST Article-I.D.: amd.718 Posted: Mon Dec 10 19:05:17 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 11-Dec-84 04:41:35 EST References: <8100004@hpcnoe.UUCP> Organization: AMD Applications, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 21 > I just received my MCI calling card. > > Normally to use the calling card I have to dial (correctly!) 32 digits. > This is a 7-digit access line, "0", 10-digit destination, 10-digit home phone, > and 4 digits of security. This extends to 36 digits if the 7-digit access > line is not available in the region I'm dialing from. > > They give no useful information on how much it will cost to use the card. I got the impression that MCI bills exactly as if you had made the call from your home address. That is if you have a card issued in San Francisco, and are on business in New York, and call to New Jersey, the billing is SF<-->NJ!! Is this correct? Anybody got bitten by this? I have Sprint, which bills for the distance covered. I have to dial the local number, 8 digit access code (6 digit acct no, 2 digit "office" no), then the standard 10 digit number. But in New York, I'm billed for calls from NY, not from SF.