The first issue of Panama is a series of three phone cards, with values of $ 5, $ 10 and $ 20, all with the image of the Cable and Wireless logo. Subsequently they were…
Paraguay, 1997
What is commonly considered the first issue of Paraguay, in reality has never been used in that country or elsewhere. It is a Landis & Gyr 120 units and code 901A, produced in 1989. The…
Peru, 1992
At the beginning of 90's, the telephone card system in Peru was operated by three different telcos, one private and two government: TELE 2000, Entel Peru and CPT. Coincidently the three launched their system at…
Philippines, 1990
In this country, several prepaid phone card systems are currently in use, but the first public-line telephone system to be installed, in 1990, was the Japanese Tamura, which then also provided the first issues, a…
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…
Poland, 1991
After testing different systems, such as Landis & Gyr, GPT, Alcatel, the magnetic card system proposed by Urmet was adopted, which was then used for several years, even if, after the first supplies of the…
Portugal, 1982
The first Portuguese telephone cards date back to 1982: in those years, two companies provided the public telephone service in Portugal: the TLP (Telefones de Lisboa and Porto), active in the cities of Lisbon and…
Puerto Rico, 1991
Puerto Rico is the smallest island of the Greater Antilles, an unincorporated territory of the United States of America, located in the north-east of the Caribbean Sea between the Dominican Republic and the Virgin Islands,…
Qatar, 1984
The first public card-operated telephones were supplied to Qatar Telecom in 1984, together with the first supply of cards to be used as field trials. These were two values, 100 and 200 QR (the local…
Romania, 1991
Chip-type cards were introduced in Romania as early as 1991, and the first of these, with a circulation of only 1,000 copies, was used during a field trial in Bucharest. The first large series of…
