The Long Way of Phone Cards From Seventieth to Our Days

It is difficult to imagine new world of communications without calling cards. During 1970, interest to the evolving of phone cards was much grown. After 1970, international phone card were used in many countries throughout the world. Today the number reached two hundred states throughout the world.

Let's speak about the history of calling cards. The invention of phone cards in that days was very needful, because of dearth of coins and burglary in the pay phone system.

The way out was found rapidly, the provider of vending machines proposed cheap calling cards to USA from Zimbabwe that they have invented. SIDA was the first company , which proposed this technology.

The first state which began to utilize prepaid phone cards was Italy in 1976. In 1977 amid the countries which started to insert phone cards attached Austria, France, Sweden and United Kingdom. These cards were so easy and convenient in employment that they quickly became popular amid the consumers, soon the rest of Europe started to get acquainted with international phone card. By early 1982, population throughout the world became acquainted with calling cards. During this period they appeared even in Asia.

There was found an interesting application to telephone cards Japan, they used them in Subway. In 1987 these calling cards began to be utilized in Western world. The first firms which presented magnetic stripes technology were Siemens and General Electric Company. In our days, magnetic stripes are utilized in almost all types of calling cards.

In 1989 AT&T, a big telecommunication establishment began to explore a world of prepaid calling cards. This firm started to provide services connected with phone cards, first to Hawaii and later they acquainted other regions of United States with these cards. In 1990 calling cards began to be utilized on magstripes based. At this time, the development of phone cards industry came to rise. The first apply of PIN numbers, long distance calls, and a lot of other services continued to grow in Western world.

All major and leading communication corporations began to manufacture prepaid phone cards in 1992, because of them high demand. In these years manufacturing of prepaid phone cards achieved another level because small telecommunication establishments started to create the prepaid phone cards of their own. The point of twelve million dollars was achieved during only two years. The interest of majority corporations was caused by amazing jump in sales in 1993, the sales of phone cards reached twenty five million dollars.

In 1995 prepaid phone cards with embedded chips replaced calling cards with magnetic technology. At this time sales reached amazing point of 650 millions US dollars.

Year 2000 and onwards the sales reached billions of dollars. In our days the phone cards include a wide range of services, among them: online calling cards, international calling cards, IP communication, fax and many other services.