The first card phones in Botswana used chip technology. The first cards issued were a series of two values, 10 and 25 Pula (the local currency), with the back completely white and no control number.…
Brazil, 1987
Brazil is home to inductive cards, invented by Nelson G. Bardini in 1978, and thousands of different ones have been issued over the years. However, after several years of experimentation, it was only in 1992…
British Virgin Islands, 1989
The British Virgin Islands are a British overseas territory and are part of the Virgin Islands volcanic archipelago in the Antilles Sea, divided between the United Kingdom and the United States of America. They include…
Brunei, 1988
Magnetic cards supplied by Autelca have been in use up to 1994; the first cards have been a set of 4 definitives, B$ 10 (180,000 printed), B$ 20 (150,000), B$ 50 (120,000) and B$ 100…
Bulgaria, 1988
Following some experiments started in 1981, the first series of public telephone cards saw the light in 1988. They were four magnetic cards, with values of 1, 2, 5 and 10 leva, with the same…
Burkina Faso, 1991
The first three cards issued in this country were also the only ones provided by Landis & Gyr, as the chip system was subsequently adopted. These are three values, 10, 20 and 50 units, which…
Burundi, 1988
Burundi used the optical card system of Landis & Gyr until 2002, issuing several ordinary cards with the same graphics. The first three were supplied in 1988 with the values of 20 (code 810E, circulation…
Cambodia, 1992
The first public issue of this country dates back to 1993, with a series of three cards provided by Anritsu and depicting scenes from ancient temples; however, as early as the year before, phone cards…
Cameroon, 1987
Magnetic cards supplied by Swiss Autelca have been in use up to 1990. There were three values, 1500 F (50,000 issued), 3000 F (30,000), and 5000 F (15,000). A new series of definitives appeared later,…
Canada, 1988
In Canada the so-called "remote-memory" cards were widely used, as well as in the United States. However, the first cards in use in the country were provided by GPT, for a field trial conducted at…
