Kuwait, 1988

The first telephone cards in Kuwait were provided by the Swiss company Autelca. The first experiments were held in 1987, using the generic testcards in which the value in Kuwaiti dinars was overprinted, but it…

Kyrgyzstan, 1996

A series of 4 phone cards, supplied by Alcatel, was issued by Kyrgyz Telecom with face values of 10, 20, 40 and 100 units. The cards depicted local landscapes and were the only Alcatel cards…

Laos, 1992

Laos began using the magnetic card system installed by Tamura in 1992, with the issue of a first series of three values (100, 300 and 500 units); about fifteen other cards were issued later, until…

Lebanon, 1992

Two chip cards from Inteltec telephone company, a 30 and a 100 units manufactured by Schlumberger, have been issued in 1992, but had a scarce diffusion and they are now not easy to get. The…

Macau, 1990

The magnetic card telephone system of the GPT was installed in the Chinese autonomous region in April 1990, when it was still a Portuguese colony. For the occasion two sets of 7 cards each were…

Malaysia, 1990

In the early 1990s, two major telephone companies were operating in Malaysia: Uniphone Telecommunications (under the Uniphonekad brand), which had installed public telephones mainly in urban areas, and Telekom Malaysia (under the Kadfon brand), which…

Maldives, 1987

The Maldivian telecom is the Dhiraagu that was founded in 1988, but until then the telephone service was provided by Cable & Wireless. A trial with cards provided by Autelca was conducted at the end…

Mongolia, 2003

The Mongolian Telecommunications Company issued the first telephone cards in 2003, using the chip system developed by Gemplus. These were 4 landscape cards, of which the first two values shared the same image: 60, 150,…

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…

Nepal, 1999

The Nepal Telecommunications Corporation issued only 5 chip cards from 1999 to 2003, before moving on to the remote memory system. The first card issued was 200 Rs (Nepalese rupee) and 10,000 were produced.