Egypt is actually using chip cards; previously magnetic cards supplied by Japanese Tamura and optical Landis & Gyr cards have been utilized, but up to 1991 the magstripe cards by Italian Urmet were in use.…
Equatorial Guinea, 1991
Chip cards were introduced in 1991 and are still in use. The first card was a plain white definitive, with chip in AFNOR position (top-left corner) and face value indicated in local value, while following…
Eritrea, 1997
The first series of three illustrated cards with landscape views was issued in 1997: the values were 25, 50 and 100 Birr, the currency of Ethiopia that until that year had also been used in…
Estonia, 1993
The new public cardphone service was officially launched by Estonian Telephone Company Ltd. in 1993, with an issue of a series of 8 Alcatel cards, each of them in four values (A, B, C, and…
Ethiopia, 2003
The first Ethiopian cards were made for the Armed Forces and therefore were not accessible to the public. They were issued by the Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation, and printed by F.N.M.T. Spanish, which provided three values,…
Falkland Islands, 1985
The Falkland Islands are an archipelago of the South Atlantic, overseas territory of the United Kingdom, which declares its sovereign since in 1833 it had built a naval base and in 1837 a colonial administration…
Faroe Islands, 1993
The Faroe Islands are a subarctic archipelago of 18 islands, located off the northern coast of Europe, between the Norwegian Sea and the north of the Atlantic Ocean, halfway between Iceland and Norway. The islands…
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 1996
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Savezna Republika Jugoslavija) was an independent state of Europe, formed on 27 April 1992 by the union of the republics of Serbia and Montenegro (including the autonomous regions of Vojvodina…
Fiji, 1992
Fiji is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean about 2,000 km northeast of New Zealand's North Island, and consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands (of…
Finland, 1982
In Finland at that time there were 58 independent telephone companies, many of which used their own telephone cards, often custom-made standard cards with overprinting. The PTT national telephone company (which later became "Tele") was…
