Gemplus and KT ICOM Team Up for 3G Trial Services During the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan

date: June 1, 2002

Gemplus, providers of smart card solutions, and KT ICOM, Korea's 3G IMT-2000 mobile operator, announced they will be providing W-CDMA trial services during the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan including video phone and video-on-demand capabilities. Hundreds of people including World Cup Officials will trial these introductory services at the World Cup Plaza located in five major stadiums and downtown Seoul and Busan during the World Cup period.

Customers will be able to make standard voice calls as well as videophone calls, while benefiting from new multimedia-based services such as video-on-demand by watching games and recalling football scores via KT ICOM handsets.

KT ICOM, one of the official telecommunications partners of the 2002 FIFA World Cup through KT Corp, selected Gemplus to provide an entire platform of solutions covering the supply of USIM cards (GemXplore 3G), applet development and Over-The-Air (OTA) delivery system. With the arrival of the mobile data eco-system, the role of the card has become an architectural control point between the end-user and the operator reinforcing their unique and privileged relationship. In this way, it can manage the end-user's relationship with different content providers, while guaranteeing the security of downloads on behalf of the operator. Its function as a flexible and secure way to store personal data and manage access to the network is fundamental to the development of mobile commerce and the uptake of mobile data services.

"The true value of 3G has been realized by partnering with Gemplus," said Mr. Byoungcheol Choi, director for M-Commerce Team at KT ICOM. "This project is a major step for KT ICOM. Not only is it 3G but also it is the first time that SIM cards have been widely deployed in a Korean telecom network."

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