Belgian mobile operator Proximus using highly secure SIM cards from Giesecke & Devrient for mobile payment
Proximus, BASE, Mobistar, telecommunications operators in Belgium, and Banksys, Belgium’s leading player on the electronic payments market, have announced that they are now offering their clients a mobile payment service. With the Mobile banxafe application from Banksys, wireless customers can conveniently use their cell phones to make payments on a day-to-day basis, for example, when taking deliveries at their front door. Mobile banxafe is stored on a G&D SIM card, which meets the especially strict security requirements and has been officially certified at security level EAL 4+.
With Mobile banxafe, all Belgian customers can conduct the same transactions using their mobile phones that they have previously been able to carry out via card terminals located in stores. These payments are made between two banxafe-enabled cell phones What’s more: they can also use the function to recharge their prepaid balance. The technology that makes such secure payments possible is also provided by G&D. The 128 KB SIM card from G&D comes with the Mobile banxafe applet stored on it. “The chip platform has passed certification according to Common Criteria (CC) at level EAL 4+ based on a hardware and software evaluation approach and thus fulfills the highest security requirements, which are essential for sensitive applications such as monetary transactions” said Dr Klaus Vedder, Group Senior Vice President and Head of G&D’s Telecommunications division.
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