Australia, 1989

Phonecards were introduced into Australia in late 1989 when an engineering field trial was conducted in Geelong, Victoria by Telecom Australia, using cards supplied by Anritsu Corporation, a japanese based firm. Fifteen card and combined…

Fiji, 1992

Fiji is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean about 2,000 km northeast of New Zealand's North Island, and consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands (of…

Kiribati, 1999

Kiribati is an independent republic comprising the Gilbert, Phoenix and Line groups of islands, approximately halfway between Hawaii and Australia. About thirty public telephones, working with chip cards, were installed by the national company Telecom…

Micronesia, 1990

The Federated States of Micronesia, abbreviated FSM and also known simply as Micronesia is an independent republic associated with the United States. It consists of four states – from west to east, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei…

New Zealand, 1989

Having decided on the GPT system of cards and cardphones, Telecom New Zealand began trialing the system in early May 1989, inside two military installations near Christchurch. Five cards with deep notch, with values of…

Northern Mariana Islands, 1990

The Mariana Islands are an archipelago of Micronesia that extend for more than 500 kilometers in the Pacific Ocean, located between the coast of the Philippines and Hawaii. The Northern Mariana Islands, not to be…

Pitcairn, 1998

Famous for the affair of the mutineers of the Bounty, the island of Pitcairn is currently inhabited only by about fifty people, all descendants of the few who decided to remain on the island when…

Tokelau, 1997

Tokelau is a small dependent territory of New Zealand, it is located in the South Pacific Ocean and is formed by the atolls Atafu, Fakaofo and Nukunonu, which together form a portion of territory of…

Vanuatu, 1992

Vanuatu, literally "the land that emerges from the sea", is an archipelago of central Melanesia, in the southern Pacific, more than 2,000 kilometers from the east coast of Australia. Telecom Vanuatu has been issuing chip…