France, 1978

Before finally installing the public telephone system based on chip cards, France Telecom conducted in 1978 some trials based on magnetic cards provided by Landis & Gyr, and then installed, in 1980, a system provided…

Gabon, 1985

Gabon too, like other African countries, initially used the magnetic telephone cards produced by Autelca, before moving on to the chip system. The first issue was a series of two values: blue 3100F, with a…

Gambia, 1990

The image of the Gamtel logo was used from 1990 to 1994 for different emissions that at first glance seem all the same. However, the first card used has a different design from all the…

Georgia, 1996

Reborn as a state in 1991, after being a republic of the Soviet Union, Georgia installed public telephones that used electronic chip cards in 1996, but disposed of them in 2000, issuing only 7 cards.…

Germany, 1983

Deutche Bundespost ran parallel field trials of four different systems before definitively adopting chip cards. The first trials began in June 1983 with the optical cards of Landis & Gyr. 30 telephones were installed in…

Ghana, 1988

The design of the Landis & Gyr cards have been used for several years, and many reprints. However, they can be easily distinguished by control number on back; moreover, the blue 60 units card with…

Gibraltar, 1990

As can easily be seen from the logo on the various cards issued over the years, the Gibraltar Telephone Company is the GNC, born from the merger between the Government of Gibraltar and the American…

Great Britain, 1981

The first cards issued by British Telecom date back to 1981 and the system adopted was the optical card system of Landis & Gyr. The cards were initially produced in Switzerland, but from March 1983…

Greece, 1992

Following a period of experimentation started in 1987, during which several systems were tested, the first public cards were distributed just in 1992, at the International Fair of Thessaloniki. For the occasion, some chipcard-based phones…

Grenada, 1989

As for other Caribbean islands, also for Grenada GPT manufactured a set of 4 cards (EC$5.40, EC$10, EC$20, EC$40), all with the same picture on them, and the EC$5.40 value was included in the Cable…