The Mariana Islands are an archipelago of Micronesia that extend for more than 500 kilometers in the Pacific Ocean, located between the coast of the Philippines and Hawaii. The Northern Mariana Islands, not to be…
Kiribati, 1999
Kiribati is an independent republic comprising the Gilbert, Phoenix and Line groups of islands, approximately halfway between Hawaii and Australia. About thirty public telephones, working with chip cards, were installed by the national company Telecom…
Vanuatu, 1992
Vanuatu, literally "the land that emerges from the sea", is an archipelago of central Melanesia, in the southern Pacific, more than 2,000 kilometers from the east coast of Australia. Telecom Vanuatu has been issuing chip…
Fiji, 1992
Fiji is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean about 2,000 km northeast of New Zealand's North Island, and consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands (of…
Micronesia, 1990
The Federated States of Micronesia, abbreviated FSM and also known simply as Micronesia is an independent republic associated with the United States. It consists of four states – from west to east, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei…
New Zealand, 1989
Having decided on the GPT system of cards and cardphones, Telecom New Zealand began trialing the system in early May 1989, inside two military installations near Christchurch. Five cards with deep notch, with values of…
Australia, 1989
Phonecards were introduced into Australia in late 1989 when an engineering field trial was conducted in Geelong, Victoria by Telecom Australia, using cards supplied by Anritsu Corporation, a japanese based firm. Fifteen card and combined…
North Macedonia, 1995
North Macedonia is a state of the Balkan peninsula in south-eastern Europe, born in 1991, when it separated peacefully from Yugoslavia, taking the name of the Republic of Macedonia or FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic of…
Czech Republic, 1993
On January 1, 1993, Czechoslovakia split peacefully into two new countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Telecom Praha, the Czechoslovak national company, which had already issued several cards before the split, continued to operate in…
Estonia, 1993
The new public cardphone service was officially launched by Estonian Telephone Company Ltd. in 1993, with an issue of a series of 8 Alcatel cards, each of them in four values (A, B, C, and…
