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Interesting Cellphone and Mastercard Tidbit

Thomas A. Horsley (tom.horsley@att.net)
Sun, 11 Sep 2005 02:18:04 GMT

I just tried to activate my updated credit card with the new
expiration date for the first time since abandoning my land line and
going strictly cellphone.

I updated my Mastercard records with my new "home" phone back when I
got rid of the land line, but apparently the system they have for
activating credit cards can't deal with cell phone numbers (the human
I eventually got to talk to told me they are woking on it).

I know my phone generates valid caller ID, since I've seen it show up
on the phones of people I called. I also know FPL's power outage
automated system can recognize me when I call and correlate my
cellphone to my home address to tell me about the state of any power
outage, so I gotta wonder what the difficulty is at Mastercard. --

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