High speed SIM Card download over the air for 3G
Gemplus International S.A, a provider of smart card solutions, announces that it has carried out the world's first high speed Java SIM card applet download over the live 3G infrastructure of 3 Hong Kong. Using a faster and more powerful communication channel based on USIM and OTA technology for 3G, Gemplus was able to download a data applet over 3 HK's live network onto a 3G video mobile phone at a speed of 384 kbit/s. This represents a significant improvement over SMS bearer technology which is currently used for SIM OTA in 2G...more