In Kazakhstan the first telephone cards were magnetic, and were supplied by Alcatel in 1994. These were 4 cards with face values in US dollars: $ 5, $ 10, $ 20 and $ 50, issued…
Kenya, 1988
The first cards to be used in Kenya were 5 values, supplied by Autelca: 50, 100, 200, 400 and 1000 KSHS. The cards, which showed the colors of the Kenyan flag, were without the typical…
Kiribati, 1999
Kiribati is an independent republic comprising the Gilbert, Phoenix and Line groups of islands, approximately halfway between Hawaii and Australia. About thirty public telephones, working with chip cards, were installed by the national company Telecom…
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…
Latvia, 1995
Latvia, one of the Baltic republics, with two million inhabitants, regained independence in 1991 after the fall of the USSR, and has been part of the European Union since 2004. The first cards used in…
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…
Lesotho, 1996
The first card issued in Lesotho, with a face value of M10, depicts a satellite antenna; however, the card was supplied by different manufacturers, and at different times, so there are some variations, different for…
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…
