Urmet firm supplies payphone system to Bangladesh. The first cards issued were a set of two with the same picture, showing a hand keeping a young plant: values were 25 and 100 units, each one…
Barbados, 1989
Barbados is an independent island nation, part of the Lesser Antilles, located on the border between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The first telephone cards used were provided by Cable & Wireless and…
Belarus, 1994
In Belarus, two companies issued telephone cards: the Beltelecom government company, which used the Urmet system and then, from 1995, the chip card system; and BelCel, which instead relied on the magnetic technology of the…
Belgium, 1977
Belgium was the second country in the world to issue telephone cards, after Italy, and for many years the system used was that provided by the Swiss Landis & Gyr. The first cards were two…
Belize, 1994
The US company Elcotel Inc. began testing a telephone system based on chip cards in 1995, but in reality a trial with inductive cards, of the type used in Brazil, was conducted the previous year.…
Benin, 1990
The first cards used in Benin were 2 values, 50 and 120 units, produced by Landis & Gyr and issued in 1990 with code 009B. The two cards had runs of 4,000 pieces each and…
Bermuda, 1986
Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic, consisting of an archipelago comprising about three hundred coral islets, twenty of which inhabited. The first telephone cards used in the archipelago date back to…
Bhutan, 2003
Bhutan Telecom, founded in 2000, installed the first autonomous public telephone booths in 2003. Previously, in fact, you could only call from public telephone offices, during opening hours and with the assistance of an operator.…
Bolivia, 1990
Several public telephone card systems were used in Bolivia over the years by various telephone companies: magnetic, inductive, chip, remote memory... however, the first telephone cards were issued by the Entel company and were supplied…
Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles), 1987
Bonaire is an island located in the Caribbean Sea, facing the coasts of Venezuela, which until 2010 was part of the Netherlands Antilles, and currently constitutes a special municipality of the Netherlands. In 1987 a…
