The first series of three illustrated cards with landscape views was issued in 1997: the values were 25, 50 and 100 Birr, the currency of Ethiopia that until that year had also been used in…
Djibouti, 1989
Public telephone devices operating with a chip card were installed in 1989 and the first cards provided by Schlumberger depicted the OPT Djibouti logo on a white background. The same design will then be used…
Congo, 1992
There are very few cards issued in the Republic of the Congo. In 1992 a telephone system based on chip cards supplied by Schlumberger was installed and three cards were issued, with values of 25,…
Comores, 1992
The first and only telephone system used in the Comoros Islands is the one working with chip cards, which was supplied by Schlumberger together with the cards, two values that show the OPT logo on…
Gambia, 1990
The image of the Gamtel logo was used from 1990 to 1994 for different emissions that at first glance seem all the same. However, the first card used has a different design from all the…
Gemplus test cards: Africa
Several Validation or Manufacturing Acceptance Cards and Engineering Sample, commonly called by collectors Test cards, have been produced by Gemplus during the years, for almost all the countries where they installed a chip card phone…
Mozambique, 1997
The first card of Mozambique is a chip card with a face value of 50.000 MT, with instructions on how to use it on the back. It was reprinted two years later, but the reprint…
Malawi, 1998
There were three values that made up the first series of cards with chips issued in Malawi by MPTC (Malawi Posts and Telecommunication Corporation): MK50, MK100 and MK200. A couple of years later, MPTC was…
Madagascar, 1994
The first cards issued in Madagascar were included in a series of four values: 25, 50, 100 and 150 units. The four cards, all with SC-7 chips, were the only ones to be issued by…
Libya, 1989
The first Libyan phone card was a 120-unit chip card supplied by the French company Gemplus. Initial field tests revealed a defect in the supplied phones, which sometimes overheated the chip, causing the card to…
