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…

Netherlands Antilles, 1987

The Netherlands Antilles were a constitutive nation of the Kingdom of the NetherlandsĀ  located in the caribbean region of the Lesser Antilles until 10 October 2010. There were two main groups of islands in the…

Aruba, 1988

The island of Aruba is a Dutch dependency in Central America, located in the Caribbean Sea twenty-four kilometers from the coast of Venezuela. The first public cardphones installed on the island were supplied by Landis…

Austria, 1980

Austria always used the optical cards of Landis & Gyr for public telephony, and commercialized many different ones, both public and private. The first Austrian telephone card was yellow, without the white band, and with…

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…

Switzerland, 1982

The small country in the heart of old Europe has used the Landis & Gyr optical system for over 15 years, before moving on to chip cards. The first card produced was a definitive of…

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…

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…

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…

Denmark, 1982

In addition to the national telephone company, KTAS (which later became Tele Danmark), in Denmark there were several regional telephone companies, each of which issued their own cards before being absorbed by Tele Danmark. Manufactured…