The GSM technology has been growing in a revolutionary way for the last 15 years throughout the whole planet. It has been consolidated as the main technological tool for massive mobile telecommunications.

In the current scenario, other mobile technologies, all joint together, represent less than 20% of the global market, and should drop even more in the next 5 years. This means that among the 2.5 billions of existing mobile phones, more than 2 billion are with GSM technology, with perspectives to increase day after day.

SIM beyond GSM

The SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card represents much more than just simple basic functionalities that makes it fundamental for GSM technology operations. Functions such as authentication, cryptography, password generator other important requirements and functionalities for any SIM Card nowadays.

More advanced functionalities, such as OTA (Over the Air) updates and SAT (SIM Application Toolkit) applications end up becoming technological differentiators between GSM operators. However, if these functionalities are not applied in a correct manner, they end up becoming useless (or with low value perception) to the end user.

Technology is only a tool. What really matters is to know if this tool creates something that the user really wants.

What matters for businesses today is to guarantee right functionalities applied in a smart manner, transforming the SIM card in a much more powerful instrument than just a way to change phones without losing the contacts' agenda.

Applications developed upon demand to attend select or massive users, customized or in a standardized and non-proprietary way, could benefit mobile phone operator in an effective manner, by offering technological flexibility, portability between market's platforms, attractive and innovative resources to increase the ARPU and, besides this, to diminish the chum.

A practical example of all these technological innovations are the mobile-payment applications, which allows the unification between the financial and telecommunications' universes, sharing all the mobility and convenience of mobile phones with the relevant financial importance and security from banks to its common clients. In this way it is possible to capture new users and to create loyal customers through partnerships and security sharing technology between two completely different worlds.

To help your company to obtain the best out of the GSM technology, INTELIGENSA develops a set of personalized services and applications. Its main goal is to add value to the SIM card.