Telephone Card

15 Nov 2003

Some, with hundreds of dollars left in value, stopped working after one call

6:26PM

Phone card company may lose licence over IDD calls

18 Apr 2002

Sun Telecom, a provider of pre-paid international calling cards, is facing a licence ban for failing to provide IDD services to its customers.

10:30PM

Card drive

26 Mar 2000

LONG-distance phone cards have gone on sale in 10,000 taxis. The cards, with tourist sites printed on the face, will be sold in values of $50 and $100.

10:19AM

Charity phonecards lose licence to call

24 Feb 1998

Charities wanting to cash in on the phonecard craze could end up with nothing after the cancellation of a telecoms licence.

12:16AM

Phonecard thief rings up $10,000 bill

13 Jan 1998

A man made hundreds of long-distance calls to his Fujian wife using an IDD phonecard stolen from a neighbour, a court heard yesterday.

Chan Wing-keung admitted stealing a phonecard...

8:04PM

Competitive environment sees scope for new cost advantages

2 Jul 1996

One of the first things people from outside Hong Kong notice about the territory's telecommunications system is that local calls are free.

It is a welcome accident of history that...

7:34AM

Opinion

Workers pay the price for our bargains

5:20AM

Howard Winn

Barry Cheung makes waves in Moscow

3:47AM

Phone card for Les Mis

Hongkong Telecom has launched a $50 commemorative phone card to mark last night's opening of the musical Les Miserables at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre.

6:57AM

Unusual errors boost the value of phonecards

A SIMPLE printing error or a natural disaster can turn the humble phone card into a 'hot' investment item, says Cyrus Lam, vice chairman of International Telephone Cards Collecting (ITCC).

4:49AM

Ensuring sufficient time for complete call

I AM writing in response to the letter of your reader Olive Chawla, published in these columns on December 27.

2:19PM

Losing $2 with every phonecard

I FIND the phonecards issued by Hongkong Telecom to be really useful. It is a good card, because there's no need to go through the operator if you want to make an overseas call.

6:47PM

Telecom dreams up hi-tech version of the very old-fashioned rip-off job

EVERY tiny part of the operation at Hongkong Telecom is being scrutinised. Take phone cards, for instance.

The old stored-value cards had a limitless life span. Go away on business...

3:39PM

Amazed

I AGREE entirely with the sentiments expressed by Mr Craig Addison in his letter headlined, 'Not genuine collectors', which appeared in the South China Morning Post, on December 18.

1:56PM