The first phonecards which have been used in Argentina were issued by Telefónica de Argentina and produced by Italian firm Urmet. They were two cards with face value of 100 and 200 units as the…
Albania, 1994
The light blue definitive card manufactured and supplied by Urmet is well known among collectors and usually considered the first issue of Albania. But less known indeed is that another card was used previously, some…
History of Italian cards (6): “Compagna di tutti i giorni”
The "Compagna di tutti i giorni" (Everyday Companion) series, also called by collectors with the name "Wallet" or "Black card", is certainly the one that until today has been printed in the largest number of…
History of Italian cards (5): the “Carta Infinita”
In the stores all over Italy, around the middle of 1991, and at the same time as the Fasce Orarie, a new type of ordinary card appears to replace the previous card: it is the…
Armenia, 1994
A nation from recent history, so even the first cards were issued late compared to other countries, produced in Italy by Urmet. The series is of two values: 25 units, with the image of the…
History of Italian cards (4): the Tourist Series
In the first months of 1989 five experimental telephone cards of 10.000 lire were issued by SIP, four with a deadline of 31.12.89 and one with a deadline of 30.06.90, with the main purpose of…
History of Italian cards (3): Fasce Orarie
On the occasion of the Turin Motor Show of 1987, held in April at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, six new experimental telephone cards are sold to the public, three of 5000 and three of 10,000…
History of Italian cards (2): the “white” and the “red” cards
In 1985, while SIDA-type phones with yellow blue vertical cards were spreading nationwide, Sip decided to proceed with the experimentation of a new type of additional blue card reader, to be added to existing telephones.…
Several systems tested in Turkey
Turkey is a state located in western Asia, which includes a limited part of the territory in Europe, corresponding to the eastern part of Thrace. European Turkey and Asiatic Turkey are separated from the Bosphorus,…
