New ETSI specification eliminates the need for physical SIMS - RealWire

Sophia Antipolis, 20 October 2022: New specifications released contiguous by ETSI volition alteration aggregate accounts and identities to beryllium successful the aforesaid smartphone handset without needing immoderate carnal SIMs to beryllium wrong the device.

The mobile telecom manufacture has been facing an expanding request for applications moving connected mobile devices similar banking, payments, transport and individuality for immoderate time. These caller specifications code this request by adding the anticipation to big and code respective virtual ‘secure elements’ into the aforesaid hardware component. This allows aggregate virtual unafraid elements to coexist logically separated, whilst having the quality to beryllium addressed independently done the aforesaid carnal interface.

Chair of the SET radical astatine ETSI, Denis Praca says, “we’re truthful excited to merchandise caller versions of respective UICC Release 17 specifications that tin payment truthful galore users. This is simply a breakthrough for end-users who volition easy beryllium capable to usage aggregate services and for work providers to deploy their applications connected a azygous mobile device, with the payment of the agelong word recognized information provided by the UICC”.

This should besides region the request for smartphones to incorporate much than 1 carnal SIM to big 2 antithetic accounts connected the aforesaid device. ETSI’s technologies, referenced by GSMA e-SIM specifications, person eradicated the request to person a carnal SIM, allowing users and instrumentality makers to efficiently negociate aggregate accounts securely.

ETSI’s Secure Element Technologies committee (TC SET, formerly known arsenic TC SCP) develops and maintains specifications for the Secure Element (SE), e.g., the UICC oregon the SSP and its interfaces with the extracurricular satellite for usage successful telecommunication systems including the Internet of Things (IoT) and different manufacture sectors.

“The adjacent signifier for america astatine ETSI, is to get mobile web operators and unafraid exertion providers to travel guardant and enactment with america to creates the applications that volition tally connected the ETSI developed platform”, Mr Praca continued. Anyone wanting to find retired much oregon to go progressive with the adjacent signifier of improvement is encouraged to sojourn the ETSI TC SET webpage - https://www.etsi.org/committee/set.

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