Gabon too, like other African countries, initially used the magnetic telephone cards produced by Autelca, before moving on to the chip system. The first issue was a series of two values: blue 3100F, with a…
Niger, 1988
The history of card-based telephony in this West African country is not very long. Phones provided by Landis & Gyr were installed in 1988, and the first cards were issued. These were the classic optical…
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…
Morocco, 1983
The first card used in Morocco is a Landis & Gyr of 100 units, issued back in 1983, and is very rare given that only 4,000 were produced. Strangely, after this issue no others followed…
Mauritius, 1992
The first card phone system installed on this island was provided by Landis & Gyr, along with a series of four cards all with 212K code and the same image. The values were 10, 20,…
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…
Lesotho, 1996
The first card issued in Lesotho, with a face value of M10, depicts a satellite antenna; however, the card was supplied by different manufacturers, and at different times, so there are some variations, different for…
Kenya, 1988
The first cards to be used in Kenya were 5 values, supplied by Autelca: 50, 100, 200, 400 and 1000 KSHS. The cards, which showed the colors of the Kenyan flag, were without the typical…
