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Also known as stored-value calling cards, because the card’s balance has already...
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Also known as stored-value calling cards, because the card’s balance has already been paid for, prepaid
calling cards have been around since the mid-seventies.
It was first introduced in Italy by SIDA, a
vending manufacturer and distributor.
SIDA had been brainstorming ideas of how to combat a
decrease in coins, which affected pay phone usage, and how to prevent pay phone vandalism.
The
results were a thin cardboard card that could be inserted into a pay phone, and it would deduct
minutes from your card.
On the back of the card was a magnetic stripe that accessed your account
information, very similar to the magnetic stripe that you see on the back of credit cards today.
After several years of modifications to the card, it wasn’t until the 1990s that phone companies started
to manufacture, and distribute phon
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