Telgua (Teléfonos de Guatemala) is the largest telecommunications company in Guatemala. Founded in 2001, in that year it issued the first telephone card: called "Ladatel", and very similar to those used in neighboring Mexico, it…
Guernsey, 1994
Guernsey is an island located in the English Channel, facing the northwest coast of France, administratively dependent on the British Crown. Guernsey Telecoms began issuing chip cards in 1994, with a series of three values…
Guinea-Bissau, 1991
Guinea-Bissau, one of the smallest states of continental Africa, has not issued many cards. The first were produced by Landis & Gyr, a system that was used from 1991 to 2002, when the phones with…
Guinea, 1992
Called also Guinea Conakry to avoid confusion with Equatorial Guinea and Guinea-Bissau, this Country had its map printed on chip cards introduced in 1992. These cards are quite common, as several reprints have been made;…
Haiti, 1996
Haiti is a Caribbean country that occupies the western part of the island of Hispaniola, sharing it with the Dominican Republic, located in the eastern part. In the country only remote memory cards were used,…
Hong Kong, 1984
The magnetic cards supplied by the Swiss Autelca have been used for many years in the former British colony, which since 1997 is a special administrative region of China. The first issued cards, commonly called…
Hungary, 1991
It is not difficult to recognize the first phone cards of this nation of Eastern Europe ... the "First Issue" logo is clearly visible in Hungarian on the front of the cards, and in English…
Iceland, 1986
Optical cards, provided by Landis & Gyr, were introduced in 1986 and used until 1998. The first issued was a simple definitive with a 2mm optical band, of which there are two variants: the first…
India, 1989
The Indian telephone company used two types of telephone cards, both supplied by the Indian company Aplab: the chipcard, which was in effect a disposable card and mounted chips made by Aplab itself or by…
Indonesia, 1988
Indonesian telephone company, state-owned, was called Perumtel when they started to issue phonecards in November 1988 using the magnetic system, with cards supplied by Japanese company Tamura. The first set of cards bore the same…
