carols@world.std.com (Carol Springs) (11/07/90)
I have noticed consistent problems lately with entering my New England Telephone calling card number when placing local calls from work. Usually a message interrupts with "card number incomplete" when I'm in the middle of entering the number, and the second entry attempt generally works. In the past I would also occasionally get a repeated "card number invalid, please enter card number again" no matter how many times I entered the complete valid number. In each case of this latter sort, the call completed successfully if I hung up and tried again. Today I got *both* messages during a call to the DPU -- a new record! After the "card number incomplete" message, I re-entered the number and got the "card number invalid" message. But this time the second message told me to hang up and enter 0, the number I was calling, and the card number. Which I did, and what do you know, things then worked fine. Nice to see the loop problem has been, uh, fixed... Carol Springs carols@world.std.com