The first telephone cards in Kuwait were provided by the Swiss company Autelca. The first experiments were held in 1987, using the generic testcards in which the value in Kuwaiti dinars was overprinted, but it…
Indonesia, 1988
Indonesian telephone company, state-owned, was called Perumtel when they started to issue phonecards in November 1988 using the magnetic system, with cards supplied by Japanese company Tamura. The first set of cards bore the same…
Malaysia, 1990
In the early 1990s, two major telephone companies were operating in Malaysia: Uniphone Telecommunications (under the Uniphonekad brand), which had installed public telephones mainly in urban areas, and Telekom Malaysia (under the Kadfon brand), which…
Singapore, 1985
Colorful GPT cards which are well known to collectors were introduced in Singapore in 1989, but Tamura cards have been in use since 1985. The first cards were a set of 5 values, $ 2…
Pakistan, 1992
In Pakistan there were several telephone companies, and some of these installed, at the beginning of the 90s, their public telephone system, using different systems: magnetic, optical and chip. The first cards issued in the…
Oman, 1985
In Oman several public card-based telephone systems were used. The first to be installed, in 1985, was provided by the Swiss Autelca, which also produced a series of 4 ordinary cards, with values in ryals,…
Myanmar, 1995
The first cards of this nation, which was once called Burma, provided by Urmet, were issued in 1995, with two subjects: 100 units, advertising the film festival, and 200 units, with the illustration of a…
Laos, 1992
Laos began using the magnetic card system installed by Tamura in 1992, with the issue of a first series of three values (100, 300 and 500 units); about fifteen other cards were issued later, until…
Israel, 1988
On the occasion of the celebrations for the 40th anniversary of Israel in June 1988, two prototypes of a public telephone operated by cards were presented. The cards, just 300, were supplied by the Swiss…
Jordan, 1986
For several years, the only existing phonecards in Jordan were magnetic cards, issued by the Telecommunication Corporation and used for a field test of a public telephone system. The values were three (100, 500 and…
