Much time has passed since cheapest phone cards to Finland from USA were first utilized in Europe. During this time started intense evolving of international calling card in whole world particularly in the U.S.A. After this period international phone card started to apply all over the world. Today the number reached 200 states throughout the world.

Now we'll speak about history of evolving and employment of international calling card. In 1975 the telephone establishments have faced the problem of scarcity of moneys and of robbery in the pay phone systems.

The most advantageous way out of the obstacle proposed by provider of vending machines, they discovered international calling card. Prepaid calling cards were a proposition of communication firm SIDA.

In 1976 Italy became the first state which started a consecutive transition to the phone cards. In 1977 among the states which started to introduce prepaid phone cards attached Austria, France, Sweden and United Kingdom. These cards were so comfortable and opportune in operation that they quickly became popular amid the people, soon the rest of Europe become to get acquainted with phone cards. Already in 1982, prepaid phone cards were applied in different regions of the world. Prepaid calling cards appeared in Eastern world.

There was found an interesting application to telephone cards Japan, they used them in Subway. During the year 1987 phone cards evolved in Western world. The first establishments which presented magstripes technology were Siemens and General Electric Company. In our days, you can find magstripes technologies everywhere in economical sphere.

In 1989 AT&T, a big telecommunication company began to explore a world of calling cards. This establishment started to provide services connected with prepaid phone cards, first to Hawaii and than they acquainted other part of United States with these cards. During the year 1990 these cards began to utilize on magstripes based. At this time, the growth of phone cards industry came to rise. The new level of security appeared in Western world it was first PIN number, also long distance calls and other services.

All major and leading communication establishments began to create prepaid phone cards in 1992, because of them high demand. Not only big telecommunication establishment understood the profit of creating international phone card but also small firms began to create the cards of their own. Sellings were doubled during only two years, because of incredible demand and big interest, they achieved point of 12 million dollars. The interest of majority firms was caused by incredible jump in sellings in 1993, the sales of calling cards achieved twenty five million dollars.

In the year 1995 continued development of phone cards, appeared another discovery, calling cards with chip instead of magnetic stripes. It caused a colossal increase in sellings. They reached 650 million US dollars.

The sellings achieved the highest level of more than billion dollars. Telephone cards found their use to pay for different services: online phone cards, send a fax, to deposit a fixed phone or even mobile phone.