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15 percent growth for GlobalPlatform smart cards |
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 GlobalPlatform has just released figures showing a conservatively estimated annual increase of 15% in the total number of smart cards, which utilize the GlobalPlatform Card Specification as the basis for card infrastructure, that havebeen deployed globally. The organization approximates that since October 2007, the number of deployed GlobalPlatform based smart cards has risen from 265 million to 305.7 million worldwide. Of the 305.7 million cards deployed to date: 45% (137.6 million cards) has been issued by governments, primarily for ID and healthcare applications, 32.7% (100 million cards) by the mobile telecommunications sector; 21.9% (66.9 million cards) by the financial sector and 0.4% (1.2 million cards) by the transit sector. An additional two billion mid range USIM/SIM cards worldwide are currently estimated to use GlobalPlatform card technology to enable over-the-air (OTA) application downloads for 3G and GSM mobile networks. In October 2007, this figure was reported to be 1.4 billion, resulting in a year-on-year increase of 43%. GlobalPlatform Specifications for cards, devices and systems are available for royalty-free download. As GlobalPlatform makes its specifications freely available to the industry, implementing parties have no obligation to report deployment or usage statistics back to GlobalPlatform
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