The first phonecards which have been used in Argentina were issued by Telefónica de Argentina and produced by Italian firm Urmet. They were two cards with face value of 100 and 200 units as the…
Venezuela, 1984
Chip cards from Venezuela are easy to get and issued in great quantities. But not all know that the first card used in this Country has been a magnetic one, manufactured by Italian SIDA and…
Andorra, 1991
Phonecards coming from this small European Country are highly popular among collectors especially for their beauty and low mintages. The first one, a chip card of which 20,000 cards were issued, commemorated the 4th Games…
Albania, 1994
The light blue definitive card manufactured and supplied by Urmet is well known among collectors and usually considered the first issue of Albania. But less known indeed is that another card was used previously, some…
Bulgaria, 1988
Following some experiments started in 1981, the first series of public telephone cards saw the light in 1988. They were four magnetic cards, with values of 1, 2, 5 and 10 leva, with the same…
Croatia, 1991
We all know the beautiful Croatian cards with chip, but the first cards, in use from 1991 to 1994, were magnetic cards supplied by GPT. The first one had the Croatian colors on white background,…
Chad, 1988
Optical cards, only definitive with three values (30, 60 and 120 units), were supplied to Chad by Landis & Gyr. The first issues were without notch while later on they were reprinted notched. Then, in…
Armenia, 1994
A nation from recent history, so even the first cards were issued late compared to other countries, produced in Italy by Urmet. The series is of two values: 25 units, with the image of the…
Cameroon, 1987
Magnetic cards supplied by Swiss Autelca have been in use up to 1990. There were three values, 1500 F (50,000 issued), 3000 F (30,000), and 5000 F (15,000). A new series of definitives appeared later,…
Italy, 1976: the first in the world
The first phonecard issued and sold to the public is Italian. It was issued in 1976 but no one at that time thought it was the starting of a new hobby that twenty years later…
