Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: 10XXX From Pay Phones (Was: Trapping 10333 by AT&T) Message-ID:Date: 27 Sep 89 02:16:51 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us Organization: Segue Software, Cambridge MA Lines: 27 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 412, message 4 of 9 In article ficc!peter@uunet.uu.net writes: >I would hardly think that Sprint (my carrier of choice) has no access to LA! When I was at LAX last week, I had no trouble sticking my FON card into one of the PacTel card reader phones and making a Sprint call. (Which is more than you can do here in Boston, the card reader phones at Logan don't know about MCI or Sprint cards.) It is true that although MCI and Sprint are set up to take calls from pay phones, a lot of the COs don't seem to handle 10XXX from pay phones very well. But I have two questions: 1 - If I dial 10333+0+number from a pay phone, I get a familiar-sounding bong and can dial in a calling card number. From a non-pay phone on the same prefix, I get a live operator. This seems to be the case for both MCI and Sprint? Why? 2 - When calling as above from a payphone, I can use my New England Tel card number, which is the same as my AT&T number, of course, but I can't use my FON card number. Why don't they accept their own cards? Again, the same situation holds with MCI. John R. Levine, Segue Software, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 492 3869 johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us, {ima|lotus}!esegue!johnl, Levine@YALE.edu Massachusetts has 64 licensed drivers who are over 100 years old. -The Globe