Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Gemalto Wins "Best Contribution to R&D for LTE" award at LTE World Summit 2012


AMSTERDAM - Tuesday, May 29th 2012 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Regulatory News:

Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, announces it has won the LTE Awards in the “Best contribution to R&D for LTE“ at the LTE World Summit 2012. Gemalto’s winning entry is an acknowledgment of the innovation leadership and dedication to best-in-class research that helps bring operational LTE solutions to market quickly. This is the third consecutive recognition for Gemalto at LTE World Summit, following the “Best contribution to LTE standards“ and “Best enabling technology“ awards won in 2011. In the U.S., Gemalto also received the “Most Innovative Network Deployment” at 4G World 2011.

Gemalto’s Advanced Connectivity solution builds on its versatile LinqUs™ Advanced OTA platform and UpTeq LTE next-generation subscriber module, embedded with Gemalto’s unique secure polling software. This feature allows for automatic software update, to help ensure a 100% success rate for the download and activation of sensitive applications such as M2M subscriptions, large NFC payment applications, as well as the credentials for streaming video content over LTE networks.

“Withover 150 million euros invested in R&D in 2011 and drawing on the expertise of Gemalto’s 1,500 scientists around the world, we are committed to developing LTE products and solutions tailored to the needs of Mobile Networks upgrading their data traffic capacity and capabilities,” commented Philippe Vallée, Executive Vice President, Gemalto.“With Advanced Connectivity solutions for LTE, we’ll continue to support our customers in differentiating themselves and monetizing their investment efficiently.”

Editor’s Note: LTE stands for Long Term Evolution, referring to fourth generation (4G) of mobile telephony standards; OTA stands for over-the-air, the ability to remotely and securely transmit and manage software and data residing on the secure element within a connected device; M2M stands for machine-to-machine, the growing market of wireless communication technology and services between and with connected devices.

About Gemalto

Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO) is the world leader in digital security with 2011 annual revenues of €2 billion and more than 10,000 employees operating out of 74 offices and 14 Research & Development centers in 43 countries.

We are at the heart of our rapidly evolving digital society. Billions of people worldwide increasingly want the freedom to communicate, travel, shop, bank, entertain and work – anytime, everywhere – in ways that are convenient, enjoyable and secure. Gemalto delivers on their expanding needs for personal mobile services, payment security, identity protection, authenticated online services, cloud computing access, eHealthcare and eGovernment services, modern transportation solutions, M2M communication,.

Gemalto develops secure software that runs on trusted devices which we design and personalize. We manage these devices, the confidential data they contain and the services they enable, throughout their life cycle. We innovate so that our clients can offer more ways of enhancing the convenience and security of their end-users’ digital lives.

Gemalto is thriving with the growing number of people using its software and secure devices to interact in the digital and wireless world.

For more information visit www.gemalto.com, www.justaskgemalto.com, blog.gemalto.com, or follow @gemalto on Twitter.

Contacts

Gemalto

Europe, Middle East & Africa

Kristel Teyras, +33 1 55 01 57 89

kristel.teyras@gemalto.com



Latin America

Ernesto Haikewitsch, +55 11 51 05 92 20

ernesto.haikewitsch@gemalto.com



North America

Nicole Smith, +1 512 257 3902

nicole.smith@gemalto.com



Asia Pacific

Yvonne Lim, +65 6317 3730

yvonne.lim@gemalto.com



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