Netherlands Antilles, 1987

The Netherlands Antilles were a constitutive nation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands  located in the caribbean region of the Lesser Antilles until 10 October 2010. There were two main groups of islands in the…

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…

Niger, 1988

The history of card-based telephony in this West African country is not very long. Phones provided by Landis & Gyr were installed in 1988, and the first cards were issued. These were the classic optical…

Nigeria, 1985

The cards in circulation in Nigeria are with electronic chips, but before 1994 magnetic cards produced by the Swiss company Autelca were used. During the first period, standard test-type cards, utilized in other countries too,…

North Macedonia, 1995

North Macedonia is a state of the Balkan peninsula in south-eastern Europe, born in 1991, when it separated peacefully from Yugoslavia, taking the name of the Republic of Macedonia or FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic of…

Northern Cyprus, 1992

Northern Cyprus, officially the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (in Turkish Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti, in the KKTC abbreviation), is a self-proclaimed republic not recognized by the international community that extends in the northern part…

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…

Oman, 1985

In Oman several public card-based telephone systems were used. The first to be installed, in 1985, was provided by the Swiss Autelca, which also produced a series of 4 ordinary cards, with values in ryals,…

Pakistan, 1992

In Pakistan there were several telephone companies, and some of these installed, at the beginning of the 90s, their public telephone system, using different systems: magnetic, optical and chip. The first cards issued in the…

Palestine, 1998

The State of Palestine used its first telephone cards in 1998, issued by Palestine Telecommunications Company P.L.C., a company founded in 1995 when only 3% of the Palestinian population owned a telephone. The first issue…