My, What a Big SIM Card You Have There"

Oberthur Card Systems and M-Systems have joined forces to launch the new GIGAntIC card, the first fully functional 128Mbytes USIM card empowered by M-Systems' MegaSIM technology. With the GIGAntIC, a new generation of USIM cards with unlimited device interoperability has arrived - one that can offer security and programmability, combined with a totally new level of USIM card performances. Compared to current USIM cards available today in the field, Oberthur's GIGAntIC increases the memory capacity by one thousand and the communication speed far and beyond any current industry performance.

The new card provides a standardised and easily accessible and transferable memory resource, alleviating the need to design additional card slots in handsets and for the bundling of memory cards that is commonplace in many of today's smart-phones.

Fundamentally, the MegaSIM empowered GIGAntIC card's secure large flash memory enables operators to offer considerably more revenue-generating services, with advanced crypto functionality for digital content protection - allowing storage and secured access to MP3 files (several albums), Java Games, video clips, pictures and personal settings.

GIGAntIC cards will be available from Oberthur Card Systems starting with the second half of 2005."

Posted to the site on 26th January 2005