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Gemplus Pilots Multi-MegaByte SIM Cards

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

- Bouygues Telecom is the First Operator to Trial the New
Super-Sized SIM From Gemplus, GemXplore Generations, Optimised for
Multimedia Services
Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext: LU0121706294 - GEM; NASDAQ:
GEMP), the world's leading provider of smart card-based solutions,
and Bouygues Telecom, one of the leading French mobile phone
operators, are piloting the first deployment of GemXplore Generations
Multimedia, the new SIM card family from Gemplus with memory ranging
from multi-megabyte to gigabyte capacity.
Since late 2004, the interest in large capacity SIMs has
increased, but this is the first pilot with a mobile operator
involving multi-MegaByte SIMs. "With over one million subscribers to
our i-mode service, we were interested in what the SIM has to offer
in terms of a centralised storage for all content and easier
portability when changing handset", said Georges Passet, Chief
Technology Officer, Bouygues Telecom.
GemXplore Generations Multimedia breaks down the traditional
barriers associated with SIM use by removing the limitations of
memory size and offering high speed data transfer between the handset
and the SIM. This means that all value added services, including
multimedia content such as screensavers, ring-tones, photos, MP3,
games, video, etc., can now be stored,  and remotely updated in the
SIM, thus reinforcing its traditional functions  of security,
flexibility, and portability. In addition, operators can store  their
branding information and specific content in the SIM and securely
update them over the air. The SIM becomes a trusted device from which
operators can manage service access and continuity for the end-user,
when  changing handset.
Renesas Technology was able to bring its expertise in chip
packaging, high density Flash and secure microcontrollers to realise
the pilot as the first step of a major evolution for the SIM, that
will enable the market and services to expand in new directions.
This evolution of the SIM is seen as a logical trend of the
telecom industry, also shared by handset manufacturers, such as
Mitsubishi Electric, whose handsets are used in the pilot. "As the
form factor for the SIM doesn't change, it is easy to deploy and
means we can offer huge removable memory storage, which benefits both
end-users and operators", said, Dominique Lefèbvre, European sales
Director, Mitsubishi Telecom division.
Visit the Gemplus stand (Hall 1, B19) at the 3GSM World Congress
2005 for a demonstration of GemXplore Generations Multimedia or cross
the Croisette to visit the Gemplus Demonstration centre.
About Gemplus
Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext: LU0121706294 - GEM; 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,
personalised 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 Bouygues Telecom
With 7,400 employees and more than 7 million customers, Bouygues
Telecom has established itself as the company that democratised the
mobile telephony market in France. Bouygues Telecom introduced mobile
phone contracts to France in 1996, and continues to design useful,
simple, high-quality and affordable products for both individual and
business customers. As part of these efforts, the company launched
i-mode mobile internet services in November 2002. On 10 January 2005,
1 000 000 Bouygues Telecom customers in France had signed up to
i-mode, and were able to access 300 sites offering practical
information and exchange e-mails with messaging systems throughout
the world. Bouygues Telecom is also one of the world's leading mobile
phone operators, with international coverage in more than 140
countries.
i-mode and the i-mode logo are registered trademarks of NTT
DoCoMo, Inc. in Japan and other countries.
(c)2005 Gemplus. All rights reserved. Gemplus, the Gemplus logo,
are trademarks and service marks of Gemplus S.A. and are registered
in certain countries. All other trademarks and service marks, whether
registered or not in specific countries, are the property of their
respective owners.
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or our future financial performance and involve known and unknown
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may differ materially. Although we believe that the expectations
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developed and expected intense competition generally in our main
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and maintain strategic relationships in our major businesses; our
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Contact:

Gemplus PR : Jane Strachey, Tel: +33-442-364-661,
e-mail:jane.strachey@gemplus.com. Edelman PR: Helen Baker, Tel:
+44-207-344-1285, e-mail: helen.baker@edelman.com

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