The first card used in Senegal was a Landis & Gyr that was supplied to oil platform workers. The card, a red "Sodeco" of 120 units with the code "006 + 6 numbers" and optic…
Serbia, 1997
After the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the Republic of Serbia had joined Montenegro forming the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a name that in 2003 became the Union of Serbia and Montenegro. Following the referendum of 21…
Seychelles, 1989
Seychelles Telephones, a Cable and Wireless plc company, introduced Landis & Gyr telephones and cards around May, 1989. The two first card were two values: 120 and 240 units, both 4,000 issued with code 902D.…
Sierra Leone, 1990
The first cards of this country, provided by Urmet, were a series of three values used as a public trial: 10, 25 and 50 units, each one produced in 1,000 copies, but there are two…
Singapore, 1985
Colorful GPT cards which are well known to collectors were introduced in Singapore in 1989, but Tamura cards have been in use since 1985. The first cards were a set of 5 values, $ 2…
Sint Eustatius (Netherlands Antilles), 1987
Sint Eustatius is an island that constitutes a special municipality of the Netherlands, located in the Caribbean Sea east of the Virgin Islands. Until 2010 it was part of the Netherlands Antilles and in 1987,…
Sint Maarten (Netherlands Antilles), 1987
Saint Martin (in Dutch Sint Maarten) is an island located about 240 km away from Puerto Rico, in the northeastern section of the Caribbean. It is part of the group of Windward Islands in the…
Slovakia, 1993
Following the separation from the Czech Republic, on January 1, 1993, Slovakia began issuing its telephone cards, the first of which in the same month; it was a 50-unit card with a circulation of 20,000…
Somalia, 1993
Little is known about Somali phone cards. In 1993, chip cards issued by Aerolite Somalia Telecommunications Ltd appeared in the collectibles market: the country had just come out of the civil war, and some private…
South Africa, 1993
Many systems and many types of cards have been tested in South Africa, both by Telkom, the national telephone company, and by other companies, such as Telkor, MTN, Transtel, Temsa, and others, making this an…
