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Gemplus Technology Enables Orange Dominicana and Banco Popular to Launch
Mobile Banking & Prepaid Reload Services for GSM
This innovative and secure solution will be the first
of its kind in Latin America
Santo Domingo, February 11, 2002 - Gemplus, Orange Dominicana
and Banco Popular announced today the launch of the first mobile banking
service in the Dominican Republic and the first Prepaid reload services
in the Latin American region.
This joint effort between mobile operator Orange Dominicana and Banco
Popular, will enable customers to request details of their bank accounts
and perform transactions and payments from their mobile phones in a flexible,
highly secure way. Through this innovative solution, Orange Dominicana
end-users will be able to make balance enquiries, pay their bills and
credit cards, transfer funds, as well as benefit from a range of prepaid
mobile top-up solutions.
Gemplus, world leader in smart card based solutions, provided the smart
card technology behind this application. Thanks to Gemplus' SIM Browsing,
a STK based technology that provides on-line transaction through Short
Message Services (SMS), the customers' transactions are PIN code protected
and digitally signed and encrypted with 3DES. Guillaume Lafaix, Gemplus'
Telecom Marketing Director for Latin America says: "Gemplus' end-to-end
and reusable modular architecture, combined with our expertise in m-commerce
and SIM technology, provided the security and flexibility that are crucial
for mobile banking and prepaid top up solutions ".
Orange Dominicana is poised to take significant share of the Dominican
Republic wireless market by bringing high value, secure and easy to use
mobile banking services to its customers. Patrice Pezat, Marketing Director
at Orange Dominicana said: "We believe this solution will boost SMS
traffic, increasing the Average Revenue per User (ARPU) while bringing
significant customer satisfaction. Our customers will be the first in
Latin America to carry out bank transactions from their mobile phones
whenever they want, wherever they are". About working with Gemplus,
Pezat added: "The Gemplus Services team has made a tremendous job
delivering this global solution with a high degree of professionalism.
They were the right technology partner to develop the infrastructure we
required".
Banco Popular was looking for a cost-effective solution that would enable
customers to benefit from banking services while they were "on the
move", while providing a secure environment to perform transactions.
"We are pleased to be the first bank in the Latin American region
to bring this new banking solution to customers. This launch will mark
an exciting milestone in banking technology and will reaffirm our commitment
to provide customers a full range of services", said Isael Peña,
E-Commerce Vice-president, Banco Popular.
About Gemplus
Gemplus is the world's number one provider of solutions empowered by smart
cards. Gemplus helps its clients offer an exceptional range of portable,
personalized solutions that bring security and convenience to people's lives.
These include mobile Internet access, interoperable banking facilities,
e-commerce, and a wealth of other applications. Gemplus is the only completely
dedicated, truly global player in the smart card industry, with the largest
R&D team, unrivalled experience, and an outstanding track record of
technological innovation. Gemplus trades its shares on Euronext Paris S.A.
First Market and on the Nasdaq Stock Market as GEMP in the form of ADSs.
Its revenue in 2000 was 1.205 Billion Euros. It employs 6721 people in 37
countries throughout the world.
Gemplus: Beyond smart
About Orange
The future is bright, the future is Orange
Orange is a mobile telecommunication company which resulted from the merge
of France Telecom (a French telecommunication company) and Orange (an English
mobile operator).
Orange launched the brand by first time in Las Americas on November 17,
2001, entering to the Dominican Republic as the first GSM operator.
We are: honest, sincere, refreshing, friendly and simple.
Our obsession: clients first. We are a quality customer services company.
We are the champion of our clients.
Our purpose: deliver products and services practical, easy to use and designed
to make our lives simpler.
Up to date, we have a market of 500 million clients in 20 countries. Our
objective for year 2005 is to be positioned in 50 countries around the world.
For more information, please check Orange's web site: www.orange.com.do
About Banco Popular
The Banco Popular Dominicano, leader and pioneer in private banking in the
Dominican Republic, has a market share of 25.2%, 2.4164 billion dollars
in assets, 142 offices, and more than 320 automatic tellers, making it the
largest financial services distribution network in the country.
Contacts
Gemplus
Mariela Arce
Marketing & Communications Latin America
tel.: +54 11 4343 4009
mariela.arce@gemplus.com
Edelman Argentina
Florencia Sabatini
Account Director
tel: +54 11 4315 4020
florencia.sabatini@edelman.com
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