Abkhazia, 2006

Abkhazia is a Caucasian territory located in the northwestern corner of Georgia, with the Black Sea in the south-west and the mountains in the Caucasus and Russia in the north-east. Claimed by Georgia, it proclaimed…

Afghanistan, 2002

In the country only a few cards were issued that used the remote memory system. The first of these, in 2002, was a 5 unit card of AWCC (Afghan Wireless Communication Company), which later produced…

Åland Islands, 1990

The Åland Islands is an archipelago province at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia in the Baltic Sea belonging to Finland. It is autonomous, demilitarised and is the only monolingually Swedish-speaking region in Finland.…

Alaska (U.S.A.), 1993

Alaska, northwest of Canada, is the largest and least populous state in the United States. Although part of the U.S.A.,there were issued some chip cards that could be used only on site, in Schlumberger phones…

Albania, 1994

The light blue definitive card manufactured and supplied by Urmet is well known among collectors and usually considered the first issue of Albania. But less known indeed is that another card was used previously, some…

Algeria, 1985

The first telephone system adopted in Algeria was provided by Landis & Gyr, which also produced a 50-unit green card with a 1.5 mm optical band. The card was printed in only 5.567 copies and…

Andorra, 1991

Phonecards coming from this small European Country are highly popular among collectors especially for their beauty and low mintages. The first one, a chip card of which 20,000 cards were issued, commemorated the 4th Games…

Angola, 1996

Angola Telecom installed the public chip card phones in 1996, and the first cards were issued in that year, a series of three values: 30 impulsos (circulation: 100,000), 50 impulsos (50,000) and 150 impulsos (50,000)…

Anguilla, 1989

Anguilla is a British overseas territory located in the Caribbean, the most northerly of the Leeward islands in the Lesser Antilles. The first telephone cards used were provided by Cable & Wireless and produced by…

Anjouan, 2002

Anjouan (also known as Ndzuwani or Nzwani) is an island in the Islamic Federal Republic of Comoros. The island proclaimed its independence in 1997, and the secession was confirmed in a popular referendum in both…