The first cards in Iran appeared in April 1991, produced by the French company Solaic. The drawing depicted a telephone receiver, a dove and stylized flowers and was used for most of the subsequent cards,…
Iraq, 2003
Chip cards have been used in Iraq since 2003, issued by ITPC (Iraq Telecommunications and Post Company). The first, with face value of 5,000 Iraqi dinars, was issued shortly before the fall of Saddam Hussein…
Ireland, 1988
The trial of phonecards in Ireland first started in Dublin on the 23 April 1988 with the installation of 36 Plessey telephones. Cards with 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 units were supplied by GPT,…
Isle of Man, 1987
The Isle of Man is a self-governing British Crown dependency in the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Ireland. The first cards, one 10 units with a 14,500 run and one 20 units with a…
Israel, 1988
On the occasion of the celebrations for the 40th anniversary of Israel in June 1988, two prototypes of a public telephone operated by cards were presented. The cards, just 300, were supplied by the Swiss…
Italy, 1976: the first in the world
The first phonecard issued and sold to the public is Italian. It was issued in 1976 but no one at that time thought it was the starting of a new hobby that twenty years later…
Ivory Coast, 1988
The history of telephone cards in Ivory Coast began in 1988, when ONT (National Telecommunications Office) installed 206 public card-operated phones in the capital and other strategic places. The phones were provided by the Swiss…
Jamaica, 1989
Compared to other Caribbean islands, Jamaica, although it is the most populated, began later to use the phone cards; however, numerous cards were issued, even in large quantities. The cards were supplied by GPT, and…
Jersey, 1988
Jersey is the largest island in the English Channel, between the United Kingdom and France. It is a self-regulating dependency of the United Kingdom, with its own government and laws, which fuses English and French…
Jordan, 1986
For several years, the only existing phonecards in Jordan were magnetic cards, issued by the Telecommunication Corporation and used for a field test of a public telephone system. The values were three (100, 500 and…
