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Gemplus to Develop R-UIM Smart Cards for TELUS MobilityLUXEMBOURG and SCARBOROUGH, Canada, September 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext: LU0121706294 - GEM and NASDAQ: GEMP), the world's leading provider of smart card solutions, today announced it has been selected by TELUS Mobility to develop R-UIM cards that will tie together the Canadian wireless carrier's CDMA and iDEN networks and enable world roaming on GSM networks. R-UIM smart cards authenticate and identify individual subscribers on wireless networks, enabling them to freely carry their subscription and personal information from phone to phone, and around the world. TELUS Mobility, which already uses Gemplus SIM cards in its iDEN Mike phones, is researching the benefits of expanding smart cards to its CDMA network. With this move, TELUS Mobility joins the other 40 CDMA operators using R-UIM, including operators located in China, India, Japan and Brazil. "Gemplus is pleased to support TELUS Mobility as it develops R-UIM technology in Canada and thus the inherent smart card advantages of portability and security. "We will continue to work closely with TELUS Mobility to optimize the value of smart cards in their networks," said Ernie Berger, President of Gemplus North America. About Gemplus Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext: LU0121706294 - GEM and NASDAQ: GEMP) is the world's leading player in the smart card industry in both revenue and total shipments (source: Gartner-Dataquest (2005), Frost & Sullivan, Datamonitor). It has sold over 5 billion smart cards. With security at its core, and 2400 patents and patent applications produced by its innovative R&D team, Gemplus delivers a wide range of portable, personalized solutions in areas including Identity, Mobile Telecommunications, Public Telephony, Banking, Retail, Transport, Healthcare, WLAN, Pay-TV, e-government, and access control. Gemplus' revenue in 2004 was 865 million Euros. http://www.gemplus.com/ About TELUS Mobility TELUS Mobility provides its more than 4 million clients across Canada with a full suite of wireless voice, Internet and data services through its CDMA PCS and iDEN Mike digital wireless networks. For more information, please visit telusmobility.com. TELUS (TSX: T, T.NV; NYSE: TU) is the largest telecommunications company in Western Canada, with more than $7.9 billion of annual revenue, 4.7 million network access lines and more than 4 million wireless clients. The company provides subscribers with a full range of telecommunications products and services including data, voice and wireless services across Canada, utilizing next generation Internet-based technologies. For more information, please visit telus.com. For more information: Jane Strachey Gemplus Tel: +33-(0)442364661 Email: [email protected] Rebecca Naysan Edelman Tel: +1-212-704-8245 Email: [email protected] Julie Smithers TELUS Mobility Tel: +1-(416)-684-6817 Email: [email protected] References: [1] CDMA - Code Division Multiple Access. A 2G mobile network in use alongside GSM in the USA. CDMA does not use a SIM card although a new standard has been developed by the CDMA Development Group in order to deploy R-UIMs to bring the same benefits of SIM for CDMA. [2] iDEN - Integrated Digital Enhanced Network - A 2G mobile network in use in the USA which is similar to GSM. (c)2005 Gemplus. All rights reserved. Gemplus, the Gemplus logo, are trademarks and service marks of Gemplus S.A. and are registered in certain countries. All other trademarks and service marks, whether registered or not in specific countries, are the property of their respective owners. Some of the statements contained in this release constitute forward-looking statements. These statements relate to future events or our future financial performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause our or our industry's actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activities, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Actual events or results may differ materially. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those estimated by the forward-looking statements contained in this release include, but are not limited to: trends in wireless communication and mobile commerce markets; our ability to develop new technology, and the effects of competing technologies developed and expected intense competition generally in our main markets; profitability of our expansion strategy; challenges to or loss of our intellectual property rights; our ability to establish and maintain strategic relationships in our major businesses; our ability to develop and take advantage of new software and services; and the effect of future acquisitions and investments on our share price. Moreover, neither we nor any other person assumes responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of such forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this release speak only as of this release. We are under no duty to update any of the forward-looking statements after this date to conform such statements to actual results or to reflect the occurrence of anticipated results. Gemplus CONTACT: For more information: Jane Strachey, Gemplus, Tel:+33-(0)442364661, Email: [email protected]. RebeccaNaysan, Edelman, Tel: +1-212-704-8245, Email:[email protected]. Julie Smithers, TELUS Mobility,Tel: +1-(416)-684-6817, Email: [email protected] |