fuat@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Fuat C. Baran) (08/08/89)
New York Telephone started a bboardish sort of thing called Info-Look and they said that I would need a New York Telephone calling card. So I applied for one and about two weeks later received a blue New York Telephone calling card (with 14 digits). As I was putting it in my wallet I noticed that it had the *SAME* 14 digit number as my white AT&T calling card which I ordered last year (and which took 8 weeks, plus multiple calls to the 800 order number). Does anyone know what the difference is? Obviously they can't tell which card I am using based on the number, so the service will be the same. Why do they bother making a distinction in the name and appearance of the card? I called New York Telephone to ask, and got a silly response: "use your AT&T card for long distance calls and NYTel card for calls within NYTel's domain" despite the fact that the paper that came along with the NYTel card says I can use it from anywhere in the US. Just curious. --Fuat -- INTERNET: fuat@columbia.edu U.S. MAIL: Columbia University BITNET: fuat@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu Center for Computing Activities USENET: ...!rutgers!columbia!cunixc!fuat 712 Watson Labs, 612 W115th St. PHONE: (212) 854-5128 New York, NY 10025 [Moderator's Note: AT&T and the Sisters Bell use the same data base for calling cards at the present time. PT]