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Home Page > WAP The founding of this Consortium aims to develop a uniform application interface as the de-facto standard for the integration of the mobile phone into the Internet world and to use the mobile phone for implementing mobile digital signatures. Among the founder members are, apart from BROKAT, the provider of mobile end devices, Siemens; the mobile operators E-Plus Mobilfunk GmbH, Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH and VIAG Interkom; the SmardCard providers Gemplus and Schlumberger as well as the T-TeleSec Trust Center of the Deutsche Telekom and cryptovision. Other national and international companies will join the Consortium soon. The application interface will facilitate standardized communication between customers and retailers, providers of financial services, lotteries and other e-Commerce providers on the Internet. In the future, it will thus be possible for customers to perform payment transactions, for example for online shopping, anywhere by entering their mobile phone number instead of having to use their credit card number. Using the signing function of the mobile phone, customers can sign in digital form which guarantees utmost security in electronic and mobile commerce. This signature can also be legally effective. ``Already today every fourth German possesses a mobile phone. The extremely increasing dissemination of mobile phones will boost electronic business'', said Jozsef Bugovics, Executive Vice President at BROKAT and responsible for mobile commerce activities. ``The mobile phone will be the E-Business-Enabler of the near future. Thus, the use of the mobile phone as a signing device will be a logical conclusion.'' BROKAT Infosystems AG BROKAT is among the leading international providers of e-Business solutions. In the market segment of Internet Banking the company is the market leader worldwide. Already more than 2,000 customers deployed and use software solutions of BROKAT. Its key product is the modular e-services platform Twister(TM). This multi-industry software package integrates existing IT systems and applications within companies, and provides secure links to various electronic channels like the Internet and mobile communications. E-Plus Mobilfunk GmbH At E-Plus, the number of customers continues to grow. Since the end of August, 3 million customers have used the High Quality Net of E-Plus. From the beginning in May 1994 until end of 1997, one million customers decided to use E-Plus. It took only 12 month to double the number of customers up to 2 million. In the past 8 month, another 1 million customers joined E-Plus. Gemplus Gemplus S.C.A. (www.gemplus.com/wireless) is the world's leading provider of plastic and smart card-based solutions (by units sold, source: Dataquest 1998). Gemplus sells magnetic stripe cards, memory and microprocessor-based smart cards, smart contactless cards, electronic tags and smart objects. The company designs and markets software, development tools and readers. Gemplus also provides consulting, training and personalization services to deliver the industry's most comprehensive and flexible card-based solutions to its developers, distributors, partners, and customers. Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH D2 Mannesmann is with nearly 9.5 million customers (end of 1999) and Germany's leading operator in digital mobile communications. Decisive factors in the success of D2 are the high-quality of its network and its wide range of innovative products and extensive customer services. The vision of D2 for telecommunications in the 21st century : always online - always connected! Schlumberger Schlumberger is the leading provider of smart card-based solutions worldwide. Drawing on 20 years experience in pioneering smart card innovations, Schlumberger is continuing to evolve the new generation of smart cards, parking terminals, ticketing machines, payphones, banking terminals, servers, software, applications and systems integration that will play a key role in the 21st century's digital age. Additional information is available at www.slb.com/smartcards. Siemens Siemens Communication Devices (CD), a division of Siemens Information and Communication Products (Siemens ICP), develops and manufactures analogue and digital communication terminals, especially Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) products, Digital GSM handsets and wireless network access terminals for GSM worldwide. Siemens holds a leading position in the digital wireless market with around 110 mobile networks installed in 62 countries. Siemens handsets are used in nearly all countries that have adopted the GSM standard. Siemens CD is also the leading provider of DECT-based products, having shipped more than fifteen million DECT phones throughout forty countries in the world. T-TeleSec TeleSec is one part of the business section ``Multimedia'' of Deutsche Telekom AG. VIAG Interkom VIAG Interkom GmbH & Co is a joint venture of VIAG Aktiengesellschaft (45 %), British Telecommunications plc (45 %) and the Norwegian Telenor (10 %). The company covers the entire requirements of telecommunication services of their private and business-customers. The range of products is based on an own telephone-network and mobile infrastructure with direct access to the end customer. The focus lies on integrated offers which enable telecommunication to be ``very simple'' according to the philosophy of VIAG Interkom. cryptovision cryptovision is supplier of cryptographic base-technology with a focus on ECC (elliptic curve cryptography). cryptovision is an internationally leading provider for the implementation of this technology into efficient and flexible components for micro processors. BROKAT, BROKAT Infosystems and Twister are trademarks of BROKAT Infosystems, AG in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks are properties of their respective companies |
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