Re: MCI goes on a Cerf Trek with {late, great} Roddenberry

CobraBoy! (tbyars@earthlink.net)
Thu, 5 Jun 1997 08:30:06 -0800


Rohit Khare at 7:17 AM -0800 on 6/5/97, came up with this:

Can the MCI FoRK calling card be far behind?

* Of course, this is also the company behind the "Macarena" PrePaid
* calling card...
*
* See: https://cons.mci.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/PrePaidCard:3@166.37.6.200/Seri
* esDescription.wo:26.25477.46$SeriesDescription.0.3.2.1.1.3.2.1.0.0.1.1.7.1.0
* ?46,10
*
* From: http://www.mci.com/aboutus/products/prepaid/collectors.shtml
*
* Last year in Europe, 66,000 people attended a phone card collectors
* convention, buying and selling single cards for as much as
* $2,000.
*
* Millions of foreign collectors have spent years seeking prepaid
* telephone cards, some of which are worth hundreds or even thousands of
* dollars. Germany alone is estimated to have more than 500,000
* dedicated collectors.
*
* Collectors often purchase prepaid cards and slip
* them right into de-acidified storage boxes and never even use the long
* distance minutes they've paid for.There are now 159 telephone
* companies in 136 countries issuing prepaid cards.
* ----------------------------------
*
* Macarena
*
* The festive Macarena MCI PrePaid Card was designed to commemorate the
* Macarena Dance Festival in Miami, FL. The Macarena is the hottest dance in
* the world and has ignited nightclubs in Europe, Latin America, and
* throughout the United States.
* The Macarena card series includes:

*
* (a) MCI PrePaid Macarena $5 card
* (b) MCI PrePaid Macarena $20 card
*

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