There was just issued a new Hong Kong Coca-Cola telecard. It shows a bottle of Coke amongst the Words "Coca-Cola" across the card in the normal logo. At the upper left is "Enjoy!" This is a private card

In the Detroit area, McDonalds released three 15 minute cards. They picture Downtown Detroit across the water, the beautiful Museum of African American History, and the Spirit of Detroit, a sculpture of man (Detroit) holding golden objects in his hands.

Time is by Sprint, and the 15 minutes on each card expires July 1999. At the bottom, is the current slogan "Did someone say McDonald's?" in the pictorial format.

3 x 15 Minutes Expires 07/31/99 Sprint, Scratchoffs.

/Contributed by Steve Eyer, dealer/

-New Slovenian Impulz card

France Dreseden 100imp 3,500 made Issued: 31.02.99

CATNET CARD CAT issued CATNET CARD for using at public internet both which is an effort to allow Internet access for people who do not have computers. The service is currently provided at 2 Public Internet Booths , one at the Bangkok Airport and the other at CAT's telecommunication service centre, Bangrak. At XIII Asian Games , CATNET CARDS are available at CAT counters in various stadiums.

Service charge A 300 baht CATNET Card would be offered nationwide for 5 hours. (The service charge is one baht per minute . At CAT Bangrak Public Booth, the service is offered free of charge for students.)

-New Swisscom cards

Emosson 5.- 900'000 11/2001

Luzzone 10.- 1'400'000 11/2001

Gigerwald 20.- 400'000 11/2001

With this set Swisscom has switched from showing scenes of Switzerland to publicizing its services.

Urmet:

units issue name description

25 1.300.000 Wielkia Orkiestra Swiatecznej Pomocy baby with a mug

25 10.000 Zaglowce Polskie III - Pogoria polish sailing - ship

25 262.000 Uzdrowiska polskie - Kudowa Zdroj polish

25 262.000 Uzdrowiska polskie - Duszniki Zdroj polish

50 393.000 Karkonosze XIV mountains landscape

50 393.000 Karkonosze XV mountains landscape

50 131.000 Szlakiem Orlich Gniazd 8 ruins of castle

50 131.000 Szlakiem Orlich Gniazd 9 castle

25 1.3000.000 Telewalentynki 99-twarz meska a man face

25 1.3000.000 Telewalentynki 99-twarz kobieca a woman face

50 131.000 Szlakiem Orlich Gniazd 10 ruins of castle

25 10.000 Zaglowce Polskie IV -Kapitan Glowacki polish sailing - ship

25 131.000 Intertelecom'99 advertisement

25 65.500 Promocyjne Centrum TPSA Torun advertisement

50 65.500 PIOCH solidny partner advertisement

25 65.500 Majonez dekoracyjny Winiary advertisement

25 262.000 Proszek OMO advertisement

New chip cards :

units issue name description

100 6.000 Telewalentynki faces of woman and man

/Contributed by Michal Juszczak, collector /

Hot off the press from Telecom New Zealand is a 5 card set of Friends of Mickey Mouse part 4 - Huey, Dewey and Louie.

They are frequent companions at home and on adventures to far-off lands. They can be a mischievous trio, playing tricks to goad Donald, their "Unca" into one of his famous tantrums. More often than not, however, Donald finds himself rescued from disaster from the more level headed trio.

Only 500 numbered presentation packs and 250 loose sets have been released.

/Contributed by JDL Holdings, dealer /

The most recent releases of Dutch phonecards include 2 series:

· Dutch History (5 cards in total)

· Dutch popmusic (3 cards)

· Cards form the new company Telfort

Dutch History:

This will become a set of 5 cards. 1 card with a value of fl. 25,= and 4 cards with a value of fl. 10,=. They show the Dutch history from the Middle Ages until today. Already 3 cards have been released. (fl.25,= and 2 fl. 10,=). Every time a fl. 10,= card is sold out a new one will be released.

Dutch Popmusic:

This is a set of three cards (fl. 5,= / fl. 10,= / fl. 25,=). The fl. 5,= card comes out in low mintage (5000) and is only released in a mint collectors pack. At phonecards swap meeting you can buy these collector packs. The fl. 10,= and fl. 25,= cards have normal mintage and are sold for normal use.

Telfort cards:

At the moment there are a lot of new phone-companies active in the phone-business. Most of them in the mobile phone-business. One of them is Telfort. Telfort is a cooperation-company between British Telecom and the Dutch railway company NS.

They have poneboxes at all railway stations in Holland. In these phoneboxes you can make a phonecall with coins, credit-cards and phonecards.

However Telfort released their own phonecards (fl.10,= and fl.20,=) you cannot use these cards in the regular phoneboxes from KPN (former PTT) and vice versa.

/Contributed by Ilonka Tünnissen & Corina van Kroonenburg, collectors /

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