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…
Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles), 1990
Despite being the largest of the islands that made up the Netherlands Antilles, dissolved in 2010, Curaçao began to use telephone cards later than the others. As for the other islands, the technology used was…
Dominica, 1989
As with many other Caribbean islands, the first cards used were supplied by GPT, and included a series of four with the same image and values of EC $ 5.40 (code 1CDMA), EC $ 10…
Dominican Republic,1994
The Dominican Republic is a Caribbean nation that occupies the eastern part of the island of Hispaniola, which it shares with Haiti. The phone cards used are mostly of the remote memory type and have…
Grenada, 1989
As for other Caribbean islands, also for Grenada GPT manufactured a set of 4 cards (EC$5.40, EC$10, EC$20, EC$40), all with the same picture on them, and the EC$5.40 value was included in the Cable…
Guatemala, 2001
Telgua (Teléfonos de Guatemala) is the largest telecommunications company in Guatemala. Founded in 2001, in that year it issued the first telephone card: called "Ladatel", and very similar to those used in neighboring Mexico, it…
Haiti, 1996
Haiti is a Caribbean country that occupies the western part of the island of Hispaniola, sharing it with the Dominican Republic, located in the eastern part. In the country only remote memory cards were used,…
Jamaica, 1989
Compared to other Caribbean islands, Jamaica, although it is the most populated, began later to use the phone cards; however, numerous cards were issued, even in large quantities. The cards were supplied by GPT, and…
Montserrat, 1989
A series of 4 values with the same image, produced by GPT, was the first issue of this Caribbean island, a British overseas territory. The four cards have the deep notch and values of EC…
Netherlands Antilles, 1987
The Netherlands Antilles were a constitutive nation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands located in the caribbean region of the Lesser Antilles until 10 October 2010. There were two main groups of islands in the…
