Following the disintegration of the USSR, officialized on December 26, 1991, the Comstar company, which already provided telephone cards and services to the Soviet Union, continued to issue GPT magnetic cards for the new Russian…
Rwanda, 1994
The first telephone cards used in Rwanda were not public, but were provided to the UN peacekeeping forces that operated in the country from 1993 to 1996. They were two magnetic cards provided by the…
Saba (Netherlands Antilles), 1987
Saba is the smallest island in the Dutch Caribbean and since 2010 is a special municipality of the Netherlands, but previously it was one of the islands that made up the Netherlands Antilles, a former…
Saint Helena, 1989
The first cards used in this small island in the south-central Atlantic, known to have been the site of Napoleon's last exile, were a field test conducted by the British GPT. The three cards, with…
Saint Kitts and Nevis, 1986
It was Autelca that inaugurated public telephony in this small island state, formed by the two homonymous islands. The classic cards with magnetic band that were issued were only three, a series of ordinary with…
Saint Lucia, 1985
A long-standing protectorate of the United Kingdom, and independent since 1979, the Caribbean island installed the first public telephones in 1985, with service provided by Cable & Wireless and Autelca magnetic cards. Two ordinary cards…
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 1984
Located in the Lesser Antilles, the archipelago of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines was one of the first states in the Caribbean to use a public card phone system. Already in 1984, in fact, the…
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…
São Tomé & Principe, 1991
This small Country, formed by the S.Tomé and Principe islands, is located in the Guinea Gulf, crossed by the Equator. The local telecommunications company began operating in 1990 and issued the first phonecard one year…
Saudi Arabia, 1984
Saudi Arabia adopted the magnetic card system provided by GPT in 1993, but in previous years several tests were conducted with various systems: in addition to the GPT itself, also with Anritsu, Alcatel, and, first…
