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Calling cards sales experience strong growth all over the world. We want to tell about a history of development this business. Calling cards were invented in Europe in the mid Seventies. Over 11 years it reaches the United States of America. Now, may use a phone card to call in over 185 countries across the world.
1975: Calling cards were invented in the fall of 1975. The company involved, SIDA, was not in the telecommunications industry, but was a manufacturer and supplier of vending machines.
1976: The first prepaid phone cards were produced and put on the market in Italy to combat payphone vandalism. In fact there was a shortage of coins in Italy at the time and payphone theft was common. Cards were introduced with a magnetic strip on the back for use in special phones to combat the coin shortage. The first calling cards were too thin and jammed frequently.
1977: Calling cards using magnetic strip authorization spread to the rest of Europe. In particular to Austria, Sweden, France, and The United Kingdom.
They became reasonably popular.
1978: Was invented inductive technology by Nelson G.Bardini in Brazil. The system uses a series of coils embedded in the card including on which blows when the card is used up. The phone card was first shown at a national inventors' exhibition in 1982.
1982: Japan's Nippon Telephone and Telegraph introduced the first Japanese phone card. Japanese commuters had to use a large coin to operate payphones on their subways. The Japanese calling cards was considerably more convenient and was sold to tens of thousands of daily subway riders in Osaka and Tokyo.
1984: France experiments with chip-based "smart cards".
1987: World Telecom Group is the first company to launch a significant phone-card product in the United States. GPT, a consortium formed by Siemens and GEC (General Electric Company), developed and issued cards with their own magstripe technology. This is now among the most widely used magstripe cards.
1988: The first catalog of telecards for calling card collectors was published by Dr. Steve Hiscocks, in England.
