What the Industry is Saying about Spansion’s MirrorBit® HD-SIM Solution

Gemplus

"Being the first to have introduced and commercially deployed the multimedia SIM, Gemplus welcomes the technology innovations brought about by Spansion™. The combination of MMC protocol and MirrorBit® technology is perfectly in line with our new disruptive offer, dot-sim, which enables truly convergent multimedia solutions for the benefit of the operator" said Jean-François Rubon, Director, Innovation & Strategy, Wireless, Gemplus.

Giesecke & Devrient

"We believe that the enhancement of SIM cards with high-density, secured Flash memory in combination with a high-speed interface will enrich the mobile subscriber experience, increase services and differentiation and will lead to new revenue streams for operators," said Dr. Klaus Vedder, executive vice president and head of the Telecommunications Division of Giesecke & Devrient.

Oberthur Card Systems

"Oberthur Card Systems has always been at the forefront of smart card design for the telecom market and partnering with Spansion, an innovator in Flash memory technology, will reinforce our advance in the high-performance SIM card segment. Spansion"s HD-SIM technology prototype is already compliant with GIGAntIC product line for secure and innovative multimedia based services," said Marc Bertin, vice president of business development at Oberthur Card Systems.

Beep Science AS

"The integrated OMA v2 DRM solution from Beep Science ties rights and content to the SIM rather than the device itself. The solution enables operators to offer revenue-generating subscription services for mobile content and will improve the user experience by enabling content and rights to move between devices. By integrating crypto and secure store on the SIM, the Spansion solution will also enhance the security protection available in the SIM card," said Jan Rune Hetle, CEO of Beep Science AS.

Jamster

"As a worldwide, leading creator, aggregator and distributor of premium off-deck mobile content, Jamster is excited to see Spansion introducing high-capacity, Flash memory SIM chips. We think out-of-the-box, pre-installed applications on phone cards have great potential for growing the mobile content market and introducing popular mobile entertainment to consumers," said Markus Berger-de León, Managing Director, Jamster.

Medialive

"Medialive’s digital content protection solution has been easily integrated in Spansion’s new HD-SIM products, providing significant benefits to the digital content distribution industry. With this integration Spansion and Medialive bring an unprecedented end-to-end security solution for the Mobile market, enabling Legal SuperDistribution and Customer Domain Management," said Didier Lesteven, CEO of Medialive.

Symbian

"Symbian welcomes this announcement and recognises the need for all parties in the mobile phone value chain to contribute to a complete and effective security solution for mobile phone users.  We look forward to continuing our close cooperation with Spansion in ensuring that security hardware components can effectively complement Symbian OS platform security," said Craig Heath, Symbian's Product Manager for Security, Privacy and DRM of Symbian.