In 2005, Gemalto announced it would be shipping a 128MB SIM with France Telecom. Unfortunately, the lack of standard interface, and suitable content to fill 128MB, killed the project. Gemalto has now started embedding a tiny DVD into the plastic card holding a new SIM chip, enabling Italy's Wind service to bundle 50MB of connection software and manuals in the same envelope as the SIM. Being one of the world's largest SIM vendors Gemalto has decided to stick a SIM on the side and called the bundle a "Smart Video Card", and the company reckons that makes the whole thing green - making use of a chunk of plastic that is normally discarded. Once subscribers connect their mobile phone to their PC, they just put in the Smart Video Card in the DVD reader and transfer the software from it. Smart Video Card, the operator's complete environment can be installed on the PC, which makes it easier for subscribers to use mobile services.

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