Alcatel Card

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Minh xin trich tu bai viet cua Andrea Lughi-1 trong tron nhung nha dealr lon nhat tren the gioi ve phonecard.

Chun bat dau voi loai the Alcatel cards

Alcatel Bell are magnetic cards manufactured in Belgium but actually they don't have a great diffusion among worldwide Telecoms, being Turkey their main utilizer. The cards are a little like Autelca cards, with a magnetic stripe on the back, and a barcode, which is often covered by a black stripe, that could seem another magstripe. They are thinner than Autelca cards but thicker than the Japanese ones.

The cards are "swallowed" by the telephone when all the units have been used so used cards are often not easy to find and, in Turkey, they are recharged and sold again so fully loaded cards can still be not in very good condition. Apart from Turkey, just a few Countries have adopted this technology, even if trials were conducted in several Countries, and some of the cards used for the trials are quite rare and valuable.
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