The Rapid Growth of the Calling Card Industry

An associate with Florida Gold Dist., Sanjay Paharia has worked extensively with prepaid telecom products. In the recent past, Sanjay Paharia was involved in the calling card industry.

The prepaid phone card got its start in Europe in 1975 as a means of fighting a coin shortage and reducing the vandalism rate in pay phones. The prepaid phone cards used a magnetic strip that could be read by some pay phones, though the cards were initially thin and frequently jammed in the reader.

In 1990, the phone card known today made its debut. NYNEX introduced its PIN-based calling card, which required the user to dial a toll-free number and enter a PIN before making a long-distance call. 

All major regional and long-distance providers adopted this system by 1992, and by 1996, calling card sales had become a billion-dollar industry. By the 2000s, calling cards could be found in stores, vending machines, and online.

Aaron Rodgers Signs Record-Breaking Contract Extension with Packers

A graduate of Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics, Sanjay Paharia has worked as an associate for Florida Gold Dist. for more than 20 years. In his free time, Sanjay Paharia enjoys watching a variety of sports, including Green Bay Packers football games.

The Green Bay Packers have a long history of developing talented quarterbacks, with legends like Brett Favre, Bart Starr, and Curly Lambeau leading the Wisconsin-based team over its nearly 100-year history. Current quarterback Aaron Rodgers is no different, and is widely considered to be one of the greatest National Football League quarterbacks of all time.

To secure their star player, Green Bay recently committed to a four-year extension of Rodgers’ contract—a deal worth a guaranteed $100 million, with room to earn up to an additional $34 million. When signed in August 2018, the deal cemented Rodgers’ status as the highest-paid player in the league, and his signing bonus of $57.5 million was the largest in NFL history.