Phone cards have done a long way since they were first used in Europe. During the nineteen seventieth prepaid calling cards were evolved in other countries, also in USA. After this time prepaid phone cards began to apply throughout the world. Today the number reached two hundred countries throughout the world.

Now we will talk about history of development and utilizing of cheap international phone cards to USA from South America. In 1975 the telephone firms have faced the problem of scarcity of moneys and of robbery in the pay telephone systems.

The most comfortable way out of the situation proposed by provider of vending machines, they found prepaid calling cards. The first corporation, that has made phone cards was SIDA.

The first country which began to apply this invention was Italy in 1976. In 1977 amid the countries which started to insert phone cards joined Austria, France, Sweden and United Kingdom. Comfort and easy of employment has increased the interest among the consumers of the Europe, and so international phone card became appear in a lot of countries soon. After some period, prepaid calling cards became evolved in different countries throughout the world. During this time users of Asia get acquainted with phone cards.

Calling cards successfully found their deployment in the Subway in Japan. During the year 1987 these international calling card began to utilize in the Western world. During this year Siemens and General Electric Company founded these cards and presented magnetic stripes technology. It is hard to imagine new world of prepaid phone cards without magnetic stripes technology.

In 1989 AT&T, a big communication corporation started to discovery a world of international calling card. This firm began to provide services connected with calling cards, first to Hawaii and than they acquainted other regions of U.S with these cards. In the year 1990 calling cards began to be utilized with magnetic stripes technology. The increase in growth of prepaid phone cards industry is being observed during this time. The first apply of PIN numbers, long distance calls, and a lot of other services continued to grow in Western world.

In 1992 all major and leading communication firms began to manufacture international phone card. In these years manufacturing of prepaid phone cards increased another point because little communication firms started to create the prepaid phone cards of their own. The point of twelve million dollars was reached during only two years. The interest of majority establishments was caused by incredible jump in sellings in 1993, the sales of international phone card reached twenty five million dollars.

In 1995 prepaid phone cards with embedded chips replaced calling cards with magstripes technique. New finding caused amazing growing of sellings and they achieved 650 million dollars.

Today sales account for more than billion dollars. Nowadays it is difficult to imagine a modern world without prepaid calling cards, they opened the door to cozy communication, and give us a lot of useful services like IP communications, online phone cards, international phone cards etc.

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