The European Commission has authorized the financial aid of France to the R&D programme led by a consortium of 10 partners and headed by Gemalto.
The MaXSSIMM program (“My Secure Solution for Mobile Multimedia Internet”) will receive €35.2 million over 30 months from the French authorities through their public Agency OSEO which supports innovation and development. MaXSSIMM, carried out by a Gemalto-led consortium, is intended to facilitate and accelerate the implementation of convenient personalized and secure Internet services for mobile devices. The global cost of the R&D expenditures of this programme amounts to €120 million.
MaXSSIMM involves the design of a complete solution including a next-generation SIM card - the max-SIM card – that provides feature phones and operator servers with new capabilities that allow application developers to rapidly roll out new mobile personal and multimedia services. The proposed technological innovations will lead to easier handset personalization, making services more convenient to use and multimedia content easier to access via a unified user interface. They will also enable subscribers to conveniently synchronize their personal data with their PC, PDA or their operator’s server, as well as safely download third party applications on their mobile phones using the security provided by the SIM. The solution will ensure secure transmission and data confidentiality in an environment offering enhanced services, contents and devices.
The consortium includes microelectronics manufacturers like STMicroelectronics, NXP Semiconductors and Toppan Photomasks, handset vendor Sagem Mobiles, as well as telecoms operator Orange and travel service provider Amadeus. SMEs such as Trusted Logic, Voxinzebox and Cityvox also take part in the consortium. In addition, Eurecom, a communication systems Research Institute, is helping with research expertise to evaluate the overall solution.
