Giesecke & Devrient Now Delivering Prepay SIM Cards Directly to T-Mobile UK Customers
Munich, October 30, 2008 – T-Mobile customers in the UK are now receiving deliveries direct from Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) when they place an online order for prepay SIM cards. With its system of “SIM production on demand”, the Munich-based company has reduced the waiting time for SIM cards requested by T-Mobile customers to just a few days. T-Mobile UK sends the necessary data to G&D over a secure data link as soon as a customer places an online order. G&D takes care of SIM-card personalisation and handles the entire shipment, including covering letter and enclosures. The parcel is sent on its way by post just a few hours later. For T-Mobile UK this means zero warehousing costs and the elimination of risks associated with the logistics process. G&D expects to deliver several million SIM cards each year.
“We are delighted that our longstanding relationship with T-Mobile UK and the mutual trust that this has engendered over the years has now enabled us to intensify our collaboration through SIM production on demand,” says Dr. Klaus Vedder, Head of the Telecommunications division at Giesecke & Devrient.
Richard Copeland, who heads the SIM Center of Excellence at T-Mobile UK, is equally delighted with the results: “Our customers are now receiving their SIM cards within days of their order, and appreciate the improved quality of service. We will turn hope to benefit from a higher activation rate.”
The orders are delivered directly to T-Mobile UK customers by Royal Mail. In parallel, G&D supplies the network operator with daily updates on the deliveries that have been expedited. This data provides the operator with an analysis tool that can be used to generate a more immediate and targeted marketing response. If necessary, the content of the consignments can be modified at short notice, enabling T-Mobile to respond almost instantaneously to new market trends and customer requirements.
G&D will be presenting its products at the CarteS & IDentification 2008 exhibition in Paris from November 4-6, 2008 (Hall 4, Booth 4 L 001).
About Giesecke & Devrient:
Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) is a technology leader in the field of smart cards, providing smart card-based solutions for telecommunications, electronic payment, healthcare, ID, transportation, and IT security (PKI). G&D is also a leading producer of banknotes and security documents and is dominant in the field of currency automation. Based in Munich, Germany, the G&D Group maintains subsidiaries and joint ventures around the world. In fiscal 2007, the Group employed close to 9,000 people and generated revenue of almost €1.5 billion. For more information, visit our website at www.gi-de.com.
About 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 16.8 million customers in the UK, making it one of the largest networks. T-Mobile has a range of innovative products and services, such as Solo, the SIM only option offering market-leading minutes and texts (at £30 per month) on a 30-day rolling contract; Combi, our best package deal; Flext, a unique tariff with a flexible allowance; U-Fix, a tariff that combines pay-as-you-go and a minimum term contract, and web’n’walk, which enables customers to surf the internet on the move. Competitive high-speed Mobile Broadband tariffs include access to the largest worldwide Wi-Fi network, with more than 1,000 HotSpots in convenient locations in the UK and 27,000 worldwide. Network coverage is among the best in the UK at over 99 per cent of the UK population. T-Mobile operates an advanced 3G HSDPA-enabled network capable of supporting effective mobile broadband speeds of up 4.5Mbps and is the first UK operator to provide a nationwide HSUPA capability for faster uploads. For more information about T-Mobile UK, please visit www.t-mobile.co.uk