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Read our fantastic articles dedicated to collecting of phonecards.

WPC Summer Contest 2026, a phonecard held in front of St Mark's Basilica in Venice
Contests

Your Phonecards Are Going on Holiday This Summer

Your phonecards are going on holiday this summer. Share a photo or video of your collection and enter the WPC Summer Contest 2026: two winners each win a limited edition 50th anniversary folder. Entries open until 31 August 2026.

Official Cultural Partnership between the Worldwide Phonecards Collectors Club and the Museo Telefonia Pubblica, the largest public telephony museum in Italy.
Partners

Museo Telefonia Pubblica Joins the WPC Club as Official Cultural Partner

The Museo Telefonia Pubblica joins the WPC Club as Official Cultural Partner. Discover what this partnership brings to phonecard collectors, and the first Italian catalogue of public telephones now taking shape.

François Fossard beside his phonecard collection, opening image of the WPC Club Collector Stories series
Phonecards

François Fossard: A Phonecard Collection of Technologies, Orange and World SIMs

We open our Collector Stories series with François Fossard, a French collector who lives by one rule: you have to go out and find the cards. His collection spans one card per technology and country, the worldwide Orange story, and new SIMs from 295 countries.

WPC Club president Davide Gambardella with Warwick Stobrawe, Eric Schuenemann and Monique Salmon — ATA members at the Phonecards International Meeting 2025
Partners

WPC Club and the African Telately Association: An Official Partnership

The WPC Club and the African Telately Association have formalised their official partnership. A unanimous vote by the ATA Executive Committee seals a collaboration built on thirty years of dedication and a shared vision for phonecard collecting worldwide.

Eric Schuenemann with his GEC Plessey GPT phonecard collection — Phonecard Museum and WPC Club partnership
Partners

GEC Plessey GPT: Part 1 of the Story Shared by the Phonecard Museum

For the first time as Official Cultural Partners, the Phonecard Museum shares research on GEC Plessey GPT phonecards with the WPC Club community. Eric Schuenemann's deep dive is now available.

Official thank-you letter from Fondazione Piemontese per la Ricerca sul Cancro ETS President Allegra Agnelli to the WPC Club, acknowledging the €2,000 charity donation from the PIM 2026 auction
Charity

FPRC Candiolo Thanks WPC Club for PIM 2026 Charity Donation

The WPC Club received an official thank-you letter from the Fondazione Piemontese per la Ricerca sul Cancro ETS, signed by President Allegra Agnelli, acknowledging the €2,000 charity donation raised at the PIM 2026 auction.

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