Zaire was the name of a sovereign state between 1971 and 1997 in Central Africa that is now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo. Telecel, Africa’s first cellular service provider, was founded in 1986…
Pitcairn, 1998
Famous for the affair of the mutineers of the Bounty, the island of Pitcairn is currently inhabited only by about fifty people, all descendants of the few who decided to remain on the island when…
Faroe Islands, 1993
The Faroe Islands are a subarctic archipelago of 18 islands, located off the northern coast of Europe, between the Norwegian Sea and the north of the Atlantic Ocean, halfway between Iceland and Norway. The islands…
France, 1978
Before finally installing the public telephone system based on chip cards, France Telecom conducted in 1978 some trials based on magnetic cards provided by Landis & Gyr, and then installed, in 1980, a system provided…
Magnetic cards, various
In addition to the most known magnetic cards manufactured by main firms, there are several other kinds of phonecards which use this system, developed in different ways, even if most of them have a ferrite…
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…
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…
Alcatel Bell magnetic cards
Alcatel Bell are magnetic cards manufactured in Belgium but they didn't have a great diffusion among worldwide Telecoms, having been Turkey their main utilizer. The cards are a little like Autelca cards, with a magnetic…
