SIM Applications

SIM Technology

SIM development reached a major milestone in 1996 when the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) approved the first technical specification for the SIM card Application Toolkit (Technical Specification TS 11.14). This defined a set of commands and procedures to enable the card to contain applications specific to the issuer (the network operator), allowing the operator to introduce a wide range of new services including information and location based services, banking and Internet access. Today, the smart card in mobile devices operates and manipulates menus and services and authenticates users for service access. The high level of security which the SIM offers means it can secure financial transactions over a mobile phone, enabling mobile commerce. Work continues to introduce additional features.

ETSI is the recognized European Standardization Organization for telecommunications and related fields of broadcasting and information technology. From its inception, the Institute has been at the leading edge in setting security standards. It achieved an outstanding success with the standardization of the Global System for Mobile communication (GSM™), which included authentication, anonymity and customer privacy. This represented the first full, world-wide, commercial deployment of encryption and smart cards, and ETSI’s standardization of the SIM for GSM has helped make it the most widely deployed smart card ever.

For some of our Applications please find file below:

SIM_APPLICATION_INFO.pdf

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