What is a prepaid card?
In recent months, our daily life has been invaded by a prepaid card, even the prepaid cards. Now the prepaid card has become for many of us a tool commonly used. It ‘must, however, do some’ clarity about the meaning of a prepaid card, because often you run into misunderstandings and inaccuracies.
In the beginning was that the prepaid phone. In fact, the SIP, then Telecoms Italy, Replacing the chip with phone cards, which were nothing if not prepaid cards with credit to climb. Covered in this universe, and still falling, all prepaid phone cards to call in Italy and abroad from land line.
The evolution after the first prepaid cards for fixed network focused on the mobile, with all operators to replace contracts with the opportunity to buy prepaid cards with credit to climb for mobile phones.
Even today these are the most popular prepaid card in the world.
Fruit of the same year are also pre-paid cards for the toll, also with a credit system to scale to be gained at the time of purchase and which decreases with usage.
Recently, development and dissemination are the prepaid credit cards, flexible and interesting to meet the needs of young people and those purchasing on the Internet.
These cards purchased in advance with a credit scale, which do not require a connection to a bank account.
The prepaid credit cards are of two types: rechargeable ones, which allow to restore via web a fixed amount of stock, and the “disposable, used only until exhaustion of the sum available.
The user makes purchases using a prepaid credit card is anonymous, no longer obliged to provide the number of credit card and avoid any relationship with your bank account.
In addition, prepaid credit cards offer the ability to keep costs under control: expenditure is continuously monitored as the roof of the amount available for purchases is limited to the amount of charge made.
Newcomers in the family are prepaid cards for accessing systems of pay-TV and pay per view, using the same concept and the same system.