Chip cards issued by Etecsa (Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba SA) have been widely used on the island for several years since 1994. However, the first public telephone cards were issued by Intertel (Empresa Internacional…
Cayman Islands, 1986
The Cayman Islands, an autonomous British Overseas Territory, are located in the western part of the Caribbean Sea and consist of three islands. Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman. The first phonecards used were…
British Virgin Islands, 1989
The British Virgin Islands are a British overseas territory and are part of the Virgin Islands volcanic archipelago in the Antilles Sea, divided between the United Kingdom and the United States of America. They include…
Barbados, 1989
Barbados is an independent island nation, part of the Lesser Antilles, located on the border between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The first telephone cards used were provided by Cable & Wireless and…
Antigua & Barbuda, 1989
Antigua and Barbuda is a former British possession, became independent since 1981, composed of the two homonymous islands and several smaller islands. The first telephone cards used were provided by Cable & Wireless and produced…
Anguilla, 1989
Anguilla is a British overseas territory located in the Caribbean, the most northerly of the Leeward islands in the Lesser Antilles. The first telephone cards used were provided by Cable & Wireless and produced by…
Belarus, 1994
In Belarus, two companies issued telephone cards: the Beltelecom government company, which used the Urmet system and then, from 1995, the chip card system; and BelCel, which instead relied on the magnetic technology of the…
Austria, 1980
Austria always used the optical cards of Landis & Gyr for public telephony, and commercialized many different ones, both public and private. The first Austrian telephone card was yellow, without the white band, and with…
Belgium, 1977
Belgium was the second country in the world to issue telephone cards, after Italy, and for many years the system used was that provided by the Swiss Landis & Gyr. The first cards were two…
Hungary, 1991
It is not difficult to recognize the first phone cards of this nation of Eastern Europe ... the "First Issue" logo is clearly visible in Hungarian on the front of the cards, and in English…
