Available SIM/USIM cards per technology

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

In the current scenario, other cell phone technologies, all joint together, represents 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 cell phones, more than 2 billion are GSM, 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 generation, SMS, network selections, preferred languages and agenda are a few of the 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 ends up becoming technological differentiators between GSM operators. However, if these functionalities aren’t 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 matter 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 loosing 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 operators 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 churn.

Convergence of standards through 3G will bring the necessity to differentiate brands into even sharper focus. The playing field will suddenly be leveled, with traditional advantages eroded.

A practical example of all this technological innovations are the mobile-payment applications, which allows the union between the financial and telecommunications universes, sharing all the mobility and convenience of cell 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 securely 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.

Adding Value

One of the main Inteligensa’s differentiators is its expertise in the development of integral smart solutions for your business. By adding more value to these applications and offering much more than simple commodities, our services comprehend:

• Consulting in the development of: GSM products and services, application developments (SIM and Back-office) and merchant strategies developments. These consulting services aim to mainly offer the necessary knowledge for our clients to foresee SIM cards as powerful tools to conquer new customers, allowing them to make aggressive massive marketing campaigns, efficient and highly impact for immediate public response.
• Value added application developments, customized and upon demand, service platform management. As example: mobile banking applications, mobile token, mobile payment, contact management application, expanded agenda, messaging and much more. This line of products in a general manner will represent 50% of the earnings of all operators by the year 2010, representing only 2% today.
• To participate in all the SIM Card production cycle, including support for the development of the plastic card, printing, finish, graphical and electrical personalization, fulfillment, consulting in the development of new packages and distribution packages, integrated logistics, activation management of IMSI numbers on-demand.

For SIM cards, INTELIGENSA offers all the technologies available in the market today, such as: WIB 1.2, 1.3, S@T and JAVA in all memory sizes possible: 16K, 32K, 64K, 128K, 256K, 512K and Flash cards, with optional cryptographic co-processor.

Modular Technology

INTELIGENSA has a modular technology inside its SIM cards, which allows optimizing certification and homologation times, besides guaranteeing the application development and interoperable functionalities, reducing the risk of non-compatibility between manufacturers and platforms.