Industry Relationships
GlobalPlatform has established strong collaborative relationships with numerous standard setting organizations, technology associations and regional smart card bodies across the world. This ensures that GlobalPlatform technology remains interoperable and relevant, thanks to its development in the wider context of other emerging technologies and the evolving business requirements of end users. Collaboration also ensures that issuers across diverse industries and geographies can benefit from the deployment of an interoperable and standardized technology infrastructure within their smart card programs.
GlobalPlatform is currently engaged with the following organizations:
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GlobalPlatform is the worldwide leader in smart card infrastructure development. As of October 2008, 90 known GlobalPlatform-based implementations had been reported worldwide and an estimated 305.7 million GlobalPlatform-based smart cards had been deployed. Additionally, two billion mid range USIM/SIM cards worldwide are estimated to use GlobalPlatform card technology to enable over-the-air (OTA) application downloads for 3G and GSM mobile networks. These figures are predicted to rise significantly by the end of 2009.
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