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Gemplus and Orange Present a New SIM-Based Web Server: Mobile Internet Services on the Horizon

Luxembourg and 3gsm World Congress, Cannes (ots/PRNewswire)

- GemXplore Generations, Gemplus' new range of smart cards,
delivers a vastly improved mobile Internet experience by enhancing
the Graphical User Interface for SIM Based Services using an embedded
WEB server
Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext: LU0121706294 - GEM and
NASDAQ: GEMP), the world's leading provider of smart card-based
solutions, is announcing the integration of Internet technology into
its new GemXplore Generations range of smart cards to deliver an
improved mobile Internet experience for Orange customers. GemXplore
Generations takes advantage of the significant memory and performance
capabilities of Gemplus' new smart cards to store an overview of the
Orange mobile Internet portal directly on the SIM, thus improving
browsing capability, speed and delivery of new services.
This smart card-based web server brings an improved graphical
user-interface to Orange services, which enhances the mobile Internet
experience for users and is expected to help drive the adoption of
value-added services.
Laurent Coureau, Strategic Advisor, Orange, Technology &
Innovation, says: "Using web server features in a smart card is a
highly practical way of offering web content as it uses a standard
Internet Protocol instead of one that is card specific. This new kind
of function of the SIM means that we can offer our customers
SIM-based services alongside browsing services in exactly the same
way. This new product demonstrate that the SIM is not limited to its
current frontiers, allowing future enhancement of the overall look
and feel of our Orange services".
End-users will be able to discover new services off-line, which
will then lead to greater service adoption and increased revenue for
the operator. The SIM server integrates the information selected from
Orange World home pages and stores it on the SIM to deliver onto the
end user's screen, thus offering a consistent look and feel for
mobile Internet services.
"Improving access to mobile Internet-based services enables
operators to build their brand and deliver new services to their
customers. The SIM has always had a role to play in making services
easy to use and brings additional advantages to the Mobile Internet
domain in terms of security, portability and service profiling. Our
new GemXplore Generations range of smart cards helps to take the
mobile Internet experience to the next level - the overall look and
feel of SIM based Services is vastly improved but more importantly,
we can dynamically upload and deliver new services quickly and
securely, thus improving Orange's ability to drive new service uptake
via mobile Internet," explains Jean-François Rubon, Director of
Product Technical Strategy, Telecom Business Unit, Gemplus.
About Gemplus
Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext: LU0121706294 - GEM and
NASDAQ: GEMP) is the world's leading player in the smart card
industry in both revenue and total shipments (source:
Gartner-Dataquest (2004), Frost & Sullivan, Datamonitor.). It has
sold over 5 billion smart cards.
With security at its core, and 2400 patents produced by its
innovative R&D team, Gemplus delivers a wide range of portable,
personalized solutions in areas including Identity, Mobile
Telecommunications, Public Telephony, Banking, Retail, Transport,
Healthcare, WLAN, Pay-TV, e-government, and access control.
Gemplus' revenue in 2004 was 865 million Euros.
www.gemplus.com
About Orange
Orange and wirefree and any other Orange product or service names
included in this material are trademarks of Orange PCS. The Orange
group is one of the world's largest mobile communications companies
and a subsidiary of the France Telecom group, with operations in 16
countries across Europe and beyond. It provides a broad range of
personal communications services, including Orange GSM1800 services
and other digital cellular telephone services. Within the Orange
Group, the Orange brand operates in the UK, France, Switzerland,
Romania, Slovakia, Thailand, the Ivory Coast, the Dominican Republic,
Cameroon, the Netherlands, Botswana, and Madagascar. The Orange group
also has controlled operations in Belgium (Mobistar). The Orange
group has a joint controlling interest in Egypt (MobiNil) and
minority interests in Portugal (Optimus) and Austria (One). As at the
end of December 2004, Orange was the largest mobile operator in both
the UK with over 14 million active customers, and France with over
20.6 million registered customers. As at the end of September 2004,
Orange controlled companies had over 52 million customers worldwide.
Orange, along with TIM, Telefonica and T-Mobile, is a founding member
of the FreeMove alliance. Further information about Orange can be
found on the Orange website at www.orange.com.
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and maintain strategic relationships in our major businesses; our
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Contact:

For more information: Gemplus PR, Jane Strachey, Tel:
+33-(0)442364661, e-mail:jane.strachey@gemplus.com . Edelman PR,
Helen Baker, Tel: +44-(020)-7344-1285, e-mail:
helen.baker@edelman.com

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