T-Mobile UK selects Sagem Orga as SIM card supplier

Mobile operator T-Mobile UK has named Sagem Orga (SAFRAN group) - one of the world's leading smart card manufacturers - as a preferred supplier of SIM cards for the United Kingdom.

T-Mobile UK has recently qualified Sagem Orga as a SIM vendor for its UK business. "We are delighted to win this contract," said Eric Dominici, Senior Vice President Telecommunications Sales EMEA, "Particularly as T-Mobile has an especially intensive supplier certification process, designed to ensure a continuous high quality level of products and services for their customers."

Commenting on the qualification, Richard Copeland, UK Smart Card Centre of Excellence Manager at T-Mobile UK, said: "We have chosen Sagem Orga due to their reputation for producing a high quality product at a competitive price. We were also impressed by their commitment to research and development and innovation."

Sagem Orga already supplies SIM cards to other major T-Mobile affiliates within the Group.

T-Mobile UK

T-Mobile is one of the world's largest mobile operators with more than 125 million customers worldwide and is the service provider of choice for 16.7 million customers in the UK. T-Mobile offers a range of innovative products and services, such as Solo, the SIM-only plan Combi, a traditional minutes and text package, and Flext, the UK's first flexible tariff. T-Mobile continues to innovate with new devices such as the UK's first Android(TM) -based smart phone, the T-Mobile G1, now with over 1,000 available applications. T-Mobile has pioneered the mobile internet, and operates an award-winning 3G network with speeds of up to 4.5Mbps. As a pioneer of deep network sharing in the UK, T-Mobile plans to deliver close to complete population coverage for 3G services in 2010.