Card Technology articles from July 2000

Card Technology archives from July 2000

TOP U.S. DIGITAL TV OPERATORS.(Illustration)(Statistical Data Included)
July 12, 2000... 3Q,'99 3Q,'99 Projected 2000 Cable Total Digital % Digital Digital Operator Subscribers Subscribers Subscribers (millions) (millions) (millions) AT&T*...

Memory-HungryGSM Gobbles Up Powerful Chips.(Global system for mobile communcations boosts smart chip indutstry)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2000... 1999 was the year of the subscriber identity module card. SIM cards led the industry to record revenue during the year and promise to help chip makers to continue to burnish their bottom lines in 2000. Chips for smart cards got fatter in...

INTERACTIVE DIGITAL TV IN EUROPE.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)(Illustration)
July 12, 2000... Country Operator Delivery Launch date Households (as of Jan. 1, 2000) Denmark Tele Danmark Cable 1999 10,000 France CanalSatellite Satellite 1997 1.4 million TPS Satellite 1997...

Table 2 Cost Reductions (Per month).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
July 12, 2000... Bad debt reduction $85 average transaction x 3.3% losses x 7% reduction = 20 cents per card Fraud reduction $85 x .5% fraud x 22% reduction = 9 cents per card Reduced authorization fees $85 x .5% x 50% = 21 cents per card ...

PKI Bridges The Internet ID Gap.
July 12, 2000... With the final pieces falling into place, public key technology is poised to take off. Will smart cards go along for the ride? The future of smart cards, many believe, is linked to the future of a technology known as PKI. PKI stands for...

Issuers Can Profit From Smart Cards.(Brief Article)
July 12, 2000... Smart cards are too expensive? If you calculate the savings and new revenues, issuers cannot afford not to issue smart cards, says one veteran card industry observer. Issuers often dismiss smart cards as too expensive. But that is...

Table 1 Card Costs.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
July 12, 2000... Smart Card Magnetic Stripe Card Purchases $4.00 $0.40 Personalization 1.50 .75 POS Upgrades/card .67 0 Total cost $6.17 $1.15 Card life (months) 36 16 Card cost/month .17 .07 ...

Smart card CHIP SHIPMENTS SOAR.(Illustration)(Product Announcement)
July 12, 2000... (part 1 of 2) (in millions of (in millions of dollars) Vendor Total chips Microprocessor chips Chip revenue Chip revenue 1999 1998 % 1999 1998 % Change ...

China's SIM Card Gold Rush.
July 12, 2000... China is the world's biggest GSM mobile phone market, and it is getting bigger fast. Chinese GSM operators will order 40 million subscriber identity module smart cards this year, double that of 1999, predicted sources at the recent Smart...

Card technology calendar.(Brief Article)
July 12, 2000... Sept. 20-23: Smartcards Expo 2000 - Bombay, India For more information, contact: S. Swarn in India. Telephone: 91-22-386-0436 Fax: 91-22-380-1782 E-mail: sswarnbom5.vsnl.net.in Sept. 27-29: Information Security...

Give Us Your Opinion.(Brief Article)
July 12, 2000... Visit the Card Technology Web site at www.cardtechnology.com and participate in our online survey. This month's question: Will transit fare-collection prove successful as the anchor application for multi-issuer smart cards? Yes....

Smart Cards Fail To Make The Cut For The Olympic Team.(Brief Article)
July 12, 2000... Australians have been enthusiastic adopters of new technology, but do not expect them to give smart cards a tryout at this September's Olympic Games. With just over two months to go, an official spokeswoman for SOCOG, the organizing...

Did Card Associations Slow The Introduction Of Smart Cards In The United States?(Cases against Visa USA, Visa International and MasterCard International)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2000... Smart cards are not generally big news in the United States, but they took center stage for a few days last month as the U.S. government began prosecuting its antitrust case against Visa U.S.A., Visa International and MasterCard International....

In Brief....(Ventura County Transportation Commission to develop a smart card with Motorola Inc. and ERG Ltd.)(multiple articels)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2000... Visa-led group plans to issue 10 million chip cards in South Korea: A new South Korean consortium led by Visa International expects to issue nearly 10 million electronic purse smart cards over the next five years for making purchases via the...

More Phones Will Use SIM Cards.(Subscriber Identity Modules developed by smart card firms)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2000... Consumers love mobile phones, and smart card vendors could not be happier. That is because the GSM technology used in some 250 million mobile phones requires a chip card inside the handset to identify a subscriber to the network operator. ...

Is Interactive TV Ready For Prime Time?
July 12, 2000... Digital television will roll out across the globe over the next 10 years, creating a promising market for smart cards to identify sofa-bound viewers to their networks and help them pay for their purchases. Okay, picture this: Suspense is...