ETSI, GlobalPlatform strengthen relationship
08 September, 2009
category: Contactless, Financial, NFC
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute and GlobalPlatform have agreed to share industry and technical knowledge and synchronize specification development that will advance mobile services across a range of industries.
GlobalPlatform, the international specification body for the smart card infrastructure, and ETSI’s Smart Card Platform committee, the standardization body which provided the core specifications for more than three billion smart cards in the past year alone, have maintained a general liaison relationship for a number of years. As a result of this previous collaboration, more than two billion SIM cards worldwide are estimated to use the technology defined by the organizations to enable OTA application downloads for 3G and GSM mobile networks.
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