It’s hard to imagine new world of communications without phone cards. During the nineteen seventieth calling cards were evolved in other states, also in United States of America. After this time phone cards began to employ all over the world. Today the quantity of states which are utilizing international calling card has risen to more than 200 for various motives.
In this text you will seek info about evolving of prepaid phone cards since 1970 to our days. The invention of phone cards in that time was very needful, because of scarcity of coins and burglary in the pay phone system.
The way out of obstacle proposed the provider of vending machines, which found phone cards. SIDA was the first company that proposed this technology.
The first country which began to use this invention was Italy in 1976. Immediately after the Italy in 1977 calling cards appeared in Austria, France, Sweden and U.K. These cards were so easy and opportune in operation that they rapidly became popular among the customers, soon the rest of Europe become to get acquainted with calling cards. By early 1982, users from all over the world became acquainted with calling cards. During this period they appeared even in Asia.
Telephone cards successfully found their deployment in the Subway in Japan. During the year 1987 these calling cards began to use in the Western world. The first firms which presented magnetic stripes technology were Siemens and General Electric Company. Nowadays, you can come across magstripes technology everywhere in economical field.
Immediately after this, in 1989 AT&T, a big communication corporation has entered the world of phone cards. They opened the door to the universe of phone cards first to Hawaii and than to other parts of the USA. In the year 1990 calling cards began to be applied with magnetic stripes technology. At this period, the growth of calling cards industry came to rise. The new level of protection appeared in Western world it was first PIN number, also long distance calls and another services.
In 1992 all major and leading communication firms began to output prepaid calling cards. But not only large companies began to manufacture prepaid phone cards but even littler companies started to making phone cards of their own. During only 2 years selling has doubled, compared with the past years, they have achieved the level of 12 million dollars. The interest of majority corporations was caused by incredible jump in sales in 1993, the sales of calling cards achieved 25 million dollars.
In the year 1995 continued growth of calling cards, appeared another discovery, calling cards with chip instead of magnetic stripes. During this time sales achieved amazing point of 650 millions US dollars.
Today sellings account for more than billion dollars. Today the calling cards include a wide range of services, among them: online calling cards, international phone cards, IP communication, fax and many another services.
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