The first Ethiopian cards were made for the Armed Forces and therefore were not accessible to the public. They were issued by the Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation, and printed by F.N.M.T. Spanish, which provided three values,…
Eritrea, 1997
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…
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…
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…
Diego Garcia, 1985
The island of Diego Garcia is an atoll that is part of the British Indian Ocean Territories, known for the presence of the United States Navy military base, one of the most important US forces…
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…
Central African Republic, 1987
The Landis & Gyr optical card system was used from 1987 to 1993, and later replaced by chip technology. The cards issued in that period were 6, always in pairs of two values, 60 and…
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…
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…
