Belize, 1994

The US company Elcotel Inc. began testing a telephone system based on chip cards in 1995, but in reality a trial with inductive cards, of the type used in Brazil, was conducted the previous year.…

Made in Brazil: the inductive cards

Most of the minor (in the sense of number of telcos supplied) manufacturers employ magstripe technology of no startling originality but Brazil has developed its own technology which is quite unlike anything else currently in…