Company News
2009-08-28
Watchdata highlights its success in the telecommunication industry as part of its 15th year anniversary celebration
Watchdata has continuously provided the telecommunication industry proven and tested innovative, SIM card solutions. It has supplied more than 650 million SIM cards to date and that number just keeps rising. With such success, Watchdata has also gained the reputation of being one of the most trusted SIM card product and solution providers in the world. As the SIM card evolves and provides more and more value added services, Watchdata revisits its unprecedented contribution to the telecom industry in its 15th year anniversary.

Major Key Milestones

  • 2000 August – Watchdata successfully launched a powerful operating system and a new generation of SIM card –TimeCOS®/SIM. This also gave way to the development of WIB and the successful development of PKI-based mobile commerce solutions.
  • 2001 September – The first TimeCOS®/SIM card was delivered to Congo Telco
  • 2003 October – Watchdata successfully expanded its telecom overseas market by providing SIM card products to one of Thailand’s biggest telecom operators
  • 2004 November – Watchdata issued its 100 millionth TimeCOS® card to BPL, an Indian telecom operator
  • 2005 August – Watchdata’s TimeCOS-UIM 32K card V5.2 was accredited for the High-Tech Transformation Project of the year by Chinese authority.
  • 2006 August – Watchdata TimeCOS®/USIM was launched, which is compatible with WCDMA/CDMA200/TDS-CDMA.
  • 2006 September – Watchdata launched SIMpass™ mobile payment solution based on single chip NFC. Watchdata began SIMpass trial inside its premises
  • 2008 March – Watchdata became an official member of SIMalliance, which is a non-profit industry association made up of the world leading SIM card manufacturers representing 9 of every 10 SIM cards sold in the world
  • 2009 March – SIMpass™ won "2009 Best Mobile Payment Solution" award at the 2009 International Mobile Terminal Technology Summit in China
Major Customer Wins
  • 2002 January – Watchdata qualified as China Mobile SIM card supplier for technical strength and innovative SIM card products
  • 2002 November – Watchdata became China Unicom SIM card and UIM card products qualified supplier
  • 2003 January – Watchdata signed a 100M supply contract with China Unicom, recognizing its strong product development and supply capacity
  • 2004 January – Watchdata provided one of Indonesia’s largest telecom operators, Satelindo Telecom 64K high-end SIM cards that support WIB
  • 2004 May – Watchdata boosted its effort to grow its overseas market and awarded the contract to provide half of DTAC’s SIM card products
  • 2005-2006 – Watchdata ranked first among China Unicom’s card providers
  • 2008 May – Watchdata partnered with Thailand’s third largest telecom operator, True Group to provide Touch SIM mobile payment solution in Bangkok
  • 2008 August – Watchdata won contract to provide SIM products to China Telecom
Major Innovation to Generate Revenue
  • 2004 July – Watchdata successfully developed “public phone card” for China Mobile, to provide public phone service based on GSM network
  • 2004 November – Watchdata successfully developed a "super assistant" application solution that enables phone directory management, OTA and many more for China Mobile Hebei branch
  • 2005 April – Watchdata launched “Visible Brand” solution for China Mobile based on 64K OTA card
  • 2006 September – Watchdata officially launched SIMpass™ mobile payment solution based on single chip NFC. Watchdata began SIMpass trial inside its premises
  • 2007 January – Watchdata developed SIMportal™ information delivery platform based on SIM card. It was used in the “life through a handset button” project of China Mobile Ningxia branch
  • 2007 July – SIMpass™ began its trial use inside China Ministry of Information Industry that marked a leap for SIMpass™’ wider commercial use
  • 2008 March – Xiamen City started Mobile Ecard project with China Mobile deploying Watchdata’s SIMpass™ technology
  • 2008 July – Guangzhou City unveils “Mobile Metro Ticket”  using Watchdata’s SIMpass™ solution and together with China Mobile
  • 2008 December – First SIMpass™-enabled mobile phone launches commercially providing unlimited convenience to the city of Chongqing in cooperation with China Unicom
Major Innovation to Improve Efficiency
  • 2008 February – SIManagement™ was used in “phone number selection via OTA” of China Mobile Guizhou branch. This turned out to be of great help for the people trapped by the blizzard during that time
  • 2007 December – SIMpass™ was used inside China Mobile Headquarters for access control, dining, coffee, hairdressing services and many more, which brought great convenience to it employees
  • Major Innovation to Improve Security
  • 2005 March – Watchdata’s dual-mode operating system TimeCOS® SIM/UIM passed CC EAL4 strong authentication, which was the national highest class of information security certification
  • 2006 December – High Security SIMkey™ was developed using PKI technology and was first used in Guangxi police system for mobile policing. It was later widely used in national police system
Major Innovation to Improve Security
  • 2005 March – Watchdata’s dual-mode operating system TimeCOS® SIM/UIM passed CC EAL4 strong authentication, which was the national highest class of information security certification
  • 2006 December – High Security SIMkey™ was developed using PKI technology and was first used in Guangxi police system for mobile policing. It was later widely used in national police system

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