Importance of Prepaid Telephone Cards in Development of Today's Telecommunication

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(Free-Press-Release.com) August 13, 2009 --

Much time has passed since prepaid calling cards were first applied in Europe. During the 1970-s online calling cards to Cuba from USA were evolved in other countries, also in USA. After seventieth, international calling card were applied in many countries throughout the world. In our days the number of states who are using international phone card has risen to more than 200 for some motives. Now we'll talk about history of evolving and employment of phone cards. In 1975 the telephone companies have faced the obstacle of scarcity of coins and of burglary in the pay telephone systems. The answer was found fast, the purveyor of vending machines proposed prepaid calling cards that they have invented. Prepaid calling cards were a proposition of communication corporation SIDA. The first state which started to apply international calling card was Italy in 1976. In 1977 the point of countries which utilized calling cards significantly arose, amid them: Austria, France, Sweden and United Kingdom. Comfort and easy of use has increased the interest amid the population of the Europe, consequently international phone card became appear in many states soon. Already in 1982, prepaid phone cards were used in some parts of the world. During this time people in Asia get acquainted with phone cards. There was found an interesting deployment to telephone cards Japan, they utilize them in Subway. In 1987 these prepaid calling cards began to be utilized in Western world. During this year Siemens and General Electric Company created these cards and introduced magnetic stripes technology. In our days, you may see magnetic stripes technology all over in economical field. Immediately after this, in 1989 AT&T, a big telecommunication firm has entered the world of phone cards. This corporation started to introduce services connected with phone cards, first to Hawaii and than they acquainted other part of United States with these cards. In the year 1990 telephone cards began to be applied with magnetic stripes technology. At this time, the growth of calling cards industry came to rise. The new level of security appeared in Western world it was first PIN number, also long distance calls and another services. In the year 1992 popularity of prepaid phone cards has reached the highest points. All main telecommunication companies began to manufacture prepaid phone cards. Not only huge telecommunication corporations understood the benefit of creating prepaid phone cards but also little firms started to create the cards of their own. Sellings were doubled during only two years, because of amazing demand and big popularity, they achieved mark of twelve million dollars. The interest of majority companies was caused by incredible leap in sellings in 1993, the sellings of international phone card reached 25 million dollars. During the year 1995 appeared another invention in phone cards business. Calling cards were fitted with chips instead of magstripes. New finding caused incredible growing of sales and they achieved 650 million dollars. The sellings achieved the highest point of more than billion US dollars. Today the calling cards contain a wide range of services, among them: online phone cards, international calling cards, IP communication, fax and many another attendances.

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