PARIS, November 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- 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.

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.

Oberthur Technologies will showcase the Visual Voicemail Service during the CARTES & Identification exhibition in Paris from November 17 - 19th, 2009 in Paris (Stand 3G001).

About Oberthur Technologies

With sales of 882 million Euros in 2008, Oberthur Technologies is a world leader in the field of secure technologies. Innovation and high quality services ensure Oberthur Technologies' strong positioning in its main target markets:

    - Card Systems: The world's second largest provider of security
      and identification based on smart card technology and associated
      services for mobile, payment, transport, digital TV and convergence
      markets.
    - Identity: Leading international supplier for the manufacture and
      personalization of secure identity documents such as passport, identity
      card, driving license or health care card - traditional and electronic
      - and associated services for both governmental and corporate markets.
    - Security printing: World's third largest private security printer
      specialized in high security for the production of banknotes, checks
      and other fiduciary documents in more than fifty countries.
    - Cash protection: World leader in the emerging market of
      intelligent systems to secure cash-in-transit and ATM.

Close to its customers, Oberthur Technologies benefits from an industrial and commercial presence across all five continents.

Oberthur Technologies S.A. is a limited liability company (societe anonyme) registered in France with its registered office at 50 quai Michelet 92 532 Levallois Perret, France. Oberthur Technologies S.A.'s corporate registration number is 340 709 534 R.C.S. Paris.

Website: http://www.oberthur.com

SOURCE Oberthur Technologies

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