It is hard to imagine current world of telecommunications without international phone card. At this period began intensive development of international phone card throughout world specifically in the U.S.A. After 1970, phone cards were used in many countries throughout the world. Today the point reached two hundred states throughout the world.

Now we'll talk about history of evolving and utilizing of prepaid calling cards. The advent of international calling card in that days was significantly necessary, because of scarcity of money and burglary in the pay phone system.

The answer was found quickly, the provider of vending machines proposed international phone card that they have found. The first firm, that has created phone cards was SIDA.

In 1976 Italy became the first state which started a gradual transition to the phone cards. In 1977 the point of states which utilized phone cards significantly rose, among them: Austria, France, Sweden and United Kingdom. Comfort and easy of employment has increased the interest amid the users of the Europe, therefore phone cards became appear in a lot of states soon. Already in 1982, calling cards were applied in some parts of the world. During this period they appeared even in Asia.

There was found an interesting application to calling cards Japan, they used them in Subway. In 1987 these prepaid calling cards began to be used in Western world. Siemens and General Electric Company invented the first magnetic stripes technology. Nowadays, magnetic stripes are applied in almost all types of calling cards.

In 1989 AT&T, a big communication establishment began to explore a world of international phone card. This establishment started to introduce Hawaii with world of calling cards. Soon they acquainted 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 development of calling cards industry came to rise. In Western world appeared such services as PIN numbers, long distance calls, and another services.

In 1992 all basic and leading communication corporations began to output calling cards. In these years outputting of phone cards increased another point because small communication establishments started to output the phone cards of their own. During only two years selling has doubled, compared with the last years, they have achieved the point of 12 million dollars. An amazing leap in sales in 1993, when the mark achieved twenty five million US dollars, has caused interest of main corporations to calling cards.

In 1995 prepaid phone cards with embedded chips replaced the cards with magstripes technique. During this time sellings reached incredible performance of 650 millions US dollars.

Year 2000 and onwards the sales reached billions of dollars. In our days the phone cards include a wide range of services, amid them: online calling cards, international phone cards, IP communication, fax and many other services.