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in the section you can see interesting new issues and learn about rare, old phonecards | this is not a for-sale-section, nevertheless, please ask if I have any of these cards to offer :-)
South Sudan, a new independent country since 9th July 2011: here one of its first phonecards, a SIM card issued by operator Zain [28/12/11]
Germany Alcatel Bell magnetic card, closed-user-group - who else has this card? Are there existing other types also? [14/11/11]
Tamura magnetic card from Northern Marianas (Saipan) which is not shown in MVcards catalogue: "Aqua Resort Club Saipan". [09/08/11]
Interesting chipcard from East Azerbaijan, which is a province of Iran.It is in the northwest of the country, bordering Armenia and Azerbaijan. Its capital is Tabriz. Chipcard is issued by "Telecommunications Company of East Azarbayjan (TCEA)". [25/02/11]
NORTH KOREA, genuine recharge card for mobiles from Koryolink, probably the first card shown on the web that is for use in this country (the North Korean chipcards with the trains were never used in North Korea as there were no cardphones installed...). Note: I had to render unrecognizable the pin code and the serial number on the scan of the card for security reasons and to protect the original buyer/user of this card. [05/07/10]
French magstrip phonecard issued by Landis & Gyr, difficult. [05/07/10]
Slovenian remote memory card with pin code (calling card), issued by Inco-Tel, discontinued after a very short period. The only remote memory card from Slovenia that I ever saw... [03/03/10]
Rodriguez Islands (part of Mauritius), recharge card issued by Mauritius Telecom under the brand Cell-Oh! which operatates only on Rodriguez Island (for more info click: here) [21/02/10]
Rwanda recharge card issued on occasion of the Pope´s visit [21/02/10]
Very early Guinea Republic GSM SIM card with number, issued by Sotelgui under the brand "Lagui" [14/02/10]
The first GSM SIM card used in the Blantyre area of Malawi, without number. Telekoms Networks Malawi Ltd went live in december 1995. In this time only the bigger cities Llongwe, Blantyre, Mzuzu, Zomba and Nkhota Kota were covered by the network. (source: Mr. Kragt, Netherlands) [13/02/10]
Very early Cameroun GSM SIM card without number, mentioned (but not illustrated) by Peter Snow in his African Catalogue from 1999 (source: Mr. Kragt, Netherlands) [13/02/10]
Publicarte with Bull chip and Cameroun Airlines advertising, from Telemediacartes, probably the first chipcard from Cameroun, similar to one used in Senegal for the Dakar Ralley (source: Mr. Kragt, Netherlands) [13/02/10]
Very early and very first chipcard from Senegal: "Africabat" from Telemediacartes for the Dakar Ralley (source: Mr. Kragt, Netherlands) [13/02/10]
Chipcard from the small company Portatel from Yucatan, Mexico [30/12/09]
Venezuela Chipcard from the small company Telcel, first issue from the year 1996 [30/12/09]
Mostly unknown 1500 units chipcard from Talafon, Nigeria, with beutiful picture of elephant (source: Mr. Kragt, Netherlands) [30/12/09]
Mostly unknown 100G chipcard from Satcom, Nigeria, which were used in Nigeria South East Zone, where many Christians live. The chip phonecard division of Satcom company is bankrupt since some time. (source: Mr. Kragt, Netherlands) [30/12/09]
Vatican samplecard by Urmet, chipcard, from 2002, the print run of the card illustrated is 5 ex. only!! (source: Mr. Matta, Italy) [23/10/09]
The first GSM SIM card from Red Bull, Austria, difficult [30/09/09]
Test-/Democard of the Brazilian induktive system for Telefonica Argentina [30/09/09]
Austrialia, chipcard from private company "Pacific Payphones" with chip modul from Schlumberger [20/10/08]
Guinea Bissau, first complete series of chipcards from this small West-African country! [05/08/08]
Indonesia Landis & Gyr optical card, used in restricted area (conference in Jakarta in 1992), control number: 228A, extremely rare! (source: Mr. Knecht, France) [07/05/08]
Lithuania test: chipcard by Solaic, unknown print run, rare! [04/10/07]
Palestina test: chipcard by Solaic, unknown print run, rare! [04/10/07]
Israeli testcard for use only in military area! [04/10/07]
Israeli testcard for use only in the Sitrin College University! [04/10/07]
Recharge card for GSM from Azad Jammu & Kashmir (meaning independent Jammu & Kashmir), autonomouse region close to Pakistan and India. Card issued by GSM provider SCOM. Picture showing landscape from Banjosa in AJK (=description on card)! [14/08/07]
Tadjikistan remote memory cards with pin code (for fixed line phones) from company Babilon-T (source: Mr. Fossard, France and Babilon-T). [14/08/07]
Scottish chipcard from BT Scotland, an interesting item for countries / region collectors! [22/02/07]
Magnetic card for making phone calls via satelitte on airplanes of Royal Air Maroc, complimentary card from 1998, rarely seen (source: Mr. Fossard, France). [08/02/07]
Morocco new chipcards manufactured by Urmet are issued by the company "EBE Sarl Maroc". [15/01/07]
Libya new chipcard "soccer stadium". [02/01/07]
Very rare testcard from Alcatel Bell for China (source: Mr. Falk, Germany). [02/01/07]
L&G service card from Canada, BC Cash Card, from 1993, control number: 310M, mostly unknown (source: MVcards). [06/11/06]
Chipcard from Nepal "Sample", mostly unknown (source: MVcards). [06/11/06]
Chipcard from Zambia "KLM airline advertisement", rarely seen. [26/07/06]
Chipcard from Indian company Mahangar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL), "Smart Card - Lifeline of Delhi and Mumbai", rarely seen. [22/06/06]
Very rare internal chipcard from Serbia (ex autonom region Vojvodina), the words on the upper left corner say: "Interna Telefonska Kartica 300 impulsa", and below: "Robni Terminal D.D. "IMOS" SID". White reverse. [19/04/06]
Landis & Gyr card from Bulgaria, quite unknown, too, dummy / specimen. [23/03/06]
Anritsu card from Mexico, quite unknown (source: Mr. Fossard, France). [06/02/06]
Landis & Gyr card from China, quite unknown, dummy / specimen from Cowitel company [06/02/06]
Testcard from Austria for the chipcards used in trains [21/12/05]
L&G demonstration cards for Vietnam (dummies) [21/12/05]
Chipcards from Guam are new [10/08/05]
Phonecard, chip type, for use on board of certain trains in Northern Ireland and Ireland. [28/07/05]
GSM SIM card with chip for German soldiers in Kosovo, an interesting card from the year 1999 [26/07/05]
Thailand Autelca system. A nice card that fits beautiful in a great collection! :-) [12/07/05]
Remote memory cards from Anjouan Island (island ca. 100km south-east of Comores, belonging to Comores), issued by `Anjouan Phone +´ in 2002 . The company had to stop its activities after a few month. [04/04/05]
Egypt Alcatel chip demonstation/test/trial [29/03/05]
GSM SIM card from Tajikistan [26/07/04]
New recharge cards from Afghanistan, company `Roshan´. [03/06/04]
Very rare and old GPT test/trial cards for Brazil, some of them even missing in MVcatalogue! [03/06/04]
New chipcard from Algeria, new company name `Algerie Telecom´, card has also Pin code at reverse. [14/04/04]
Test chipcard from Myanmar. [27/01/04]
Old Anritsu/Tamura (?) magnetic card from Ohio, USA, rare. [20/08/03]
[17/07/03]
GSM SIM card with chip from Greenland, there are no own phonecards used there so far, only GSM
[20/05/03]
Mostly unknown magnetic card from Mexico, silver reverse [wanted!!]
[14/04/03]
the first genuine phonecard from Iraq, chipcard (chip at reverse).
Turkmenistan PIN code card with Turkmen and US flag, seems to be issued for soldiers
the first phonecard from Nepal, front & reverse illustrated
Afghanistan recharge cards for mobile phones
Afghanistan remote memory phonecards with PIN code for fixed line phones.
[11/02]
Austrian demonstration card with control number 004F, quantity: 10 - 25 ex., probably issued around 1990
Here are four trial cards of the D1 design for Austria.
Saudi Arabia optical card by Landis & Gyr issued about 12 - 15 years ago | I am not sure if loaded phonecards exist or only dummies...
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