The Subscriber Identity Module is central to the security of GSM services, but is also increasingly being used as a platform to enable mobile network operators to deploy handset-independent applications, in order to increase ARPU and drive customer loyalty. With more and more capabilities being packed in to a SIM, and network operators keen to deploy ever-more-innovative applications, the diminutive size of the SIM belays its increasing importance, and the importance of understanding just what it can, and can't, do.
The SIM is owned by the network operator, and recognized by most users on GSM networks as representing their identity to the network. Operators are finding new ways of utilizing that understanding, and applying that identity to applications as diverse as bill-payment, instant messaging and WiFi access systems; as well as more mundane uses such as ringtone downloads and premium-service subscription management.
This one-day seminar will enable you to understand just what is possible using a SIM, and which technologies make that possible. Equally important is an examination of the limitations of the current generation of SIMs, and how recent developments including the creation of high-speed interfacing have the potential to address those limitations and why that might not happen.
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