Following some successful trials during 1986/87, Tamura cards were adopted and the first public set was issued in 1988: there were four different cards, each one with a different slogan about telephone sevices, but for…
Philippines, 1990
In this country, several prepaid phone card systems are currently in use, but the first public-line telephone system to be installed, in 1990, was the Japanese Tamura, which then also provided the first issues, a…
South Korea, 1986
Autelca magnetic cards were initially supplied in 1986 and used for many years, with several thousand different printed cards. In 2000 the magnetic system was abandoned and chip cards were introduced.
Brunei, 1988
Magnetic cards supplied by Autelca have been in use up to 1994; the first cards have been a set of 4 definitives, B$ 10 (180,000 printed), B$ 20 (150,000), B$ 50 (120,000) and B$ 100…
Bangladesh, 1993
Urmet firm supplies payphone system to Bangladesh. The first cards issued were a set of two with the same picture, showing a hand keeping a young plant: values were 25 and 100 units, each one…
Bahrain, 1986
Magstripe cards were originally manufactured by Autelca on behalf the Bahrain Telecommunications Company B.S.C. There was a set of 4 definitives with use instructions in both English and Arabic and black control numbers on the…
Namibia, 1993
Following a few months of field trials with cards provided by South African Telkor, the first regular cards were issued in December 1993. Produced by GPT, they had the facial value expressed in Rand (R…
South Africa, 1993
Many systems and many types of cards have been tested in South Africa, both by Telkom, the national telephone company, and by other companies, such as Telkor, MTN, Transtel, Temsa, and others, making this an…
Zimbabwe, 1995
The first phone cards of this nation were two chip cards illustrated, issued by P & T Corporation, the national telephone company. Face values were $ 30 (Zimbabwe dollar) and $ 100, both with a…
Zambia, 1996
The first card used in Zambia was from the ZamTel Company and it was a card with a Gemplus rechargeable chip. In fact, on the card appears the writing "Return after use", ie it had…
