Phone Cards,
Prepaid, Philippines Phone Cards, India, International
Philippines Phone Cards, calling cards or, as they are often called,
telecards is America's fastest growing hobby after collecting Pokemon
cards. Although phonecards as a consumer commodity are only about 25
years old they come in a mutiplicity of forms and like stamp collecting
they are printable. The very fact that a phone card can have anything
printed on it makes it collectable. Add to this the fact that cards
are mostly printed in limited runs. This results in scarcities of each
card as there are a finite number of that particular run.
Here are some of the features that a phone card collector would look
for:-
Cards are made of different materials
Plastic
Layer thickness
Layer Construction
Layer material
Paper
Card condition
New
Mint
Old
Cards are used or unused Philippines Phone Cards
Cards types
Prepaid
Rechargeable/Reusable
Cards have magnetic stripes
The position of the mag strip
The width of the mag strip
The material of the mag strip
Cards have embedded chips
Cards have different data storage systems
Card Systems include:-
Alcatel
Anritsu
Autelca
Chip cards
GPT
GSM
Inductive cards
Landis & Gyr
Magnetic cards
Remote Memory cards
SIDA
Tamura
Urmet
Philippines Phone Cards have different expiry systems
Tear off corners
Mag strips
Blown Inductive coils
Cards from a specific product
CocaCola
Disney
Card Geometry
Oblong
Square
Cutouts
Notches
Cards from a specific event
Olympic Games
Soccer World Cup
Cards from a specific country
USA
Brazil
Carribean
Italy
Singapore
Japan
Rare Philippines Phone Cards
Early edition cards
Comemorative editions
Phone card collecting is an exact science and with it comes all the equipment.
Collecting equipment includes thingd like albums, phone card catalogues,
special lighting, ante static mats and calling card cleaning equipment. Exactly
like Pokemon cards,coin and stamp collecting there are collectors all around
the globe who trade, swap and sell telecards.You can buy individual rare
phonecards or you can bulk buy a job lot of cards from a particular country.
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