Evolving of Prepaid Phone Cards During the History
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It's hard to imagine modern world of telecommunications without phone cards. During seventieth, interest to the evolving of calling cards was greatly increased. The evolving of international calling card led to their use in a lot of states. In our days, it is arduous to seek a state which doesn't use international calling card. Let's talk about the history of prepaid phone cards. As the result of scarcity of money and systematic burglary in the pay telephone system the advent of prepaid phone cards was very important and needful. The way out of obstacle proposed the supplier of vending machines, which invented phone cards. Calling cards were a proposition of telecommunication firm SIDA. In 1976 Italy became the first country which began a gradual passage to the phone cards. In 1977 the number of states which used phone cards significantly increased, among them: Austria, France, Sweden and United Kingdom. These cards were so easy and opportune in utilizing that they quickly became popular among the people, soon the rest of Europe started to get acquainted with prepaid calling cards. After some time, international calling card became evolved in different countries all over the world. Prepaid calling cards appeared in Asia. In Japan this invention was applied in interesting context, people settle with the assistance of them for services in Subway. During the year 1987 phone cards developed in Western world. Siemens and General Electric Company created the first magstripes technology. It is hard to imagine current world of phone cards without magnetic stripes technology. In 1989 AT&T, a big telecommunication establishment started to explore a world of prepaid phone cards. This firm started to introduce Hawaii with universe of calling cards. Soon they introduce these cards to other regions of U.S. In the year 1990 calling cards began to be utilized with magnetic stripes technology. At this time, the growth of phone cards industry came to rise. In Western world appeared such services as PIN numbers, long distance calls, and other services. In the year 1992 popularity of prepaid phone cards has reached the highest points. All major communication firms began to manufacture prepaid phone cards. In these years manufacturing of international calling card achieved another level because small communication companies began to create the international calling card of their own. The point of twelve million dollars was achieved during only two years. An amazing jump in sellings in 1993, when the mark achieved 25 million US dollars, has caused interest of majority firms to prepaid calling cards. In the year 1995 continued growth of international phone card, appeared another invention, calling cards with chip instead of magstripes. At this time sellings achieved amazing point of 650 millions US dollars. Year 2000 and onwards the sellings reached billions of dollars. Telephone cards found their usage to pay for different services: online calling cards, send a fax, to deposit a fixed phone or even mobile phone.
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