The Vatican City State, born in 1929, is the smallest sovereign state in the world, both by population and by territorial extension. The first telephone card was produced by Urmet and issued in 1992 with…
San Marino, 1994
The small state located in central Italy issued the first telephone cards by Telefonia Sammarinese in 1994. It was a set of three Urmet cards, like those used in Italy, with the small corner to…
Belarus, 1994
In Belarus, two companies issued telephone cards: the Beltelecom government company, which used the Urmet system and then, from 1995, the chip card system; and BelCel, which instead relied on the magnetic technology of the…
Poland, 1991
After testing different systems, such as Landis & Gyr, GPT, Alcatel, the magnetic card system proposed by Urmet was adopted, which was then used for several years, even if, after the first supplies of the…
Myanmar, 1995
The first cards of this nation, which was once called Burma, provided by Urmet, were issued in 1995, with two subjects: 100 units, advertising the film festival, and 200 units, with the illustration of a…
Bangladesh, 1993
Urmet firm supplies payphone system to Bangladesh. The first cards issued were a set of two with the same picture, showing a hand keeping a young plant: values were 25 and 100 units, each one…
Urmet cards, Italian magnetic technology
Urmet is an Italian firm, manufacturer and service provider of public telephone systems, door videophone systems and home care/alarms monitoring systems and in 1964 produced the first public telephones for Italian SIP (the old name…
Sierra Leone, 1990
The first cards of this country, provided by Urmet, were a series of three values used as a public trial: 10, 25 and 50 units, each one produced in 1,000 copies, but there are two…
Liberia, 1995
The only cards issued in Liberia were provided by Urmet. In circulation there are also other magnetic cards, but they are false and printed as simple collecting speculation. The first series of Urmet included five…
Egypt, 1985
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.…
