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...long-distance one, you just look up the number, pick up the phone and dial. To send a piece of E-mail across the country, by contrast, you have to know not only the recipient's number (or E- mail "address") but also what system he subscribes to (MCI Mail, AT&T Mail, CompuServe, Prodigy, Internet, etc.). To receive a message, you have to hook your computer to a modem, start a communications program, dial into the remote computer where your mail is stored and download the message into your computer...
...telephone have been inseparable for a century, but nothing can match the technological wizardry of Perot's 800-number operation, which claims to have received 1.5 million calls since March 13. Incoming callers are sorted to give priority to those from states with the earliest petition deadlines. An MCI service named Caller Profile helps assemble demographic data on the volunteers who call in. Perot refuses to disclose what he is spending on this let-your-fingers-do-the-walking grass-roots operation. But Paul Weichselbaum, MCI's Texas general manager, says it's "a highly unusual system" whose "cost...
...Offers a $20 check from Mci if the credit card was used as a calling card when using MCI...
American Express also offers up to 30 minutes each month of free long-distance calling from MCI and special discounts to various merchants and retailers...
...balance of the year. Says START chairman Larry Andreini: "For years, companies have offered pension plans to make employees loyal, so why not take that concept to the logical next step and offer customers essentially a pension plan?" Among the companies that have signed on so far: Hertz, MCI, Eddie Bauer and Club...