The Sudatel company issued the first telephone card in 1997: it was a card with Gemplus GEM2 chip and a circulation of 42,000 copies. The 1998 calendar was printed on the back. Following this, other…
Somalia, 1993
Little is known about Somali phone cards. In 1993, chip cards issued by Aerolite Somalia Telecommunications Ltd appeared in the collectibles market: the country had just come out of the civil war, and some private…
Seychelles, 1989
Seychelles Telephones, a Cable and Wireless plc company, introduced Landis & Gyr telephones and cards around May, 1989. The two first card were two values: 120 and 240 units, both 4,000 issued with code 902D.…
Senegal, 1985
The first card used in Senegal was a Landis & Gyr that was supplied to oil platform workers. The card, a red "Sodeco" of 120 units with the code "006 + 6 numbers" and optic…
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…
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…
Ethiopia, 2003
The first Ethiopian cards were made for the Armed Forces and therefore were not accessible to the public. They were issued by the Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation, and printed by F.N.M.T. Spanish, which provided three values,…
Eritrea, 1997
The first series of three illustrated cards with landscape views was issued in 1997: the values were 25, 50 and 100 Birr, the currency of Ethiopia that until that year had also been used in…
Burundi, 1988
Burundi used the optical card system of Landis & Gyr until 2002, issuing several ordinary cards with the same graphics. The first three were supplied in 1988 with the values of 20 (code 810E, circulation…
Djibouti, 1989
Public telephone devices operating with a chip card were installed in 1989 and the first cards provided by Schlumberger depicted the OPT Djibouti logo on a white background. The same design will then be used…
