Oberthur Technologies showcases Visual Voicemail Service Using aMultimedia SIM Card

Oberthur Technologies, the world's second largest provider of smart cards, and Telefonica Spain, one of the leading telecommunications operators in the world, will demonstrate, a Visual Voicemail Service running on Oberthur Technologies' Multimedia SIM Card GIGANTIC WUAOW during the CARTES & Identification 2009 exhibition in Paris from November 17 - 19th, 2009 in Paris (Stand 3G001).

The Visual Voicemail Service for mobile phones is what e-mail is to computers. By taking advantage of the multimedia capacities of the GIGANTIC WUAOW SIM card, subscribers have the freedom to play voicemails in any order, listen to a message only partially, or use details such as phone numbers in utmost simplicity from a list displayed on the screen of their handsets. In addition, subscribers can also store voice messages with no time limitation due to the mass storage capacity of the GIGANTIC WUAOW SIM card.

"GIGANTIC WUAOW won the SESAMES award for best mobile innovation last year. We are pleased to offer, together with Telefonica Spain, this first application paving the way to a set of innovative services which provides a competitive advantage to our customers based on our GIGANTIC WUAOW platform," commented Eric Duforest, Regional Managing Director for Europe at the Card Systems Division of Oberthur Technologies.