The first telephone system adopted in Algeria was provided by Landis & Gyr, which also produced a 50-unit green card with a 1.5 mm optical band. The card was printed in only 5.567 copies and…
Angola, 1996
Angola Telecom installed the public chip card phones in 1996, and the first cards were issued in that year, a series of three values: 30 impulsos (circulation: 100,000), 50 impulsos (50,000) and 150 impulsos (50,000)…
Anjouan, 2002
Anjouan (also known as Ndzuwani or Nzwani) is an island in the Islamic Federal Republic of Comoros. The island proclaimed its independence in 1997, and the secession was confirmed in a popular referendum in both…
Ascension, 1985
Before switching to the magnetic system of GPT cards, Cable & Wireless, the telephone operator on Ascension Island, had installed public telephones in 1985 using magnetic cards supplied by Autelca. The cards issued, of the…
Benin, 1990
The first cards used in Benin were 2 values, 50 and 120 units, produced by Landis & Gyr and issued in 1990 with code 009B. The two cards had runs of 4,000 pieces each and…
Botswana, 1994
The first card phones in Botswana used chip technology. The first cards issued were a series of two values, 10 and 25 Pula (the local currency), with the back completely white and no control number.…
Burkina Faso, 1991
The first three cards issued in this country were also the only ones provided by Landis & Gyr, as the chip system was subsequently adopted. These are three values, 10, 20 and 50 units, which…
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…
Cameroon, 1987
Magnetic cards supplied by Swiss Autelca have been in use up to 1990. There were three values, 1500 F (50,000 issued), 3000 F (30,000), and 5000 F (15,000). A new series of definitives appeared later,…
Cape Verde, 1990
Before moving to the chip system, Cape Verde used Landis & Gyr technology for the public telephone network, issuing, from 1990 to 1993, only 5 card models. Four of these were ordinary cards with the…
