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GlobalPlatform announce China training session

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

GlobalPlatform has announced that its first one-day card specification training session for 2010 will take place at the Tsinghua Science Park, Beijing on Jan. 29. The session will coincide with Sun Microsystem’s JavaCard China Telco Summit being held at the China World Hotel, Beijing, and will focus on the value that GlobalPlatform technology adds to mobile UICC deployments.

To be delivered in English, the program will provide delegates with instruction on applying GlobalPlatform’s technology within mobile UICC deployments, an outline of the functionality offered by GlobalPlatform’s UICC Configuration – a technical guide which outlines a common and neutral environment to facilitate the secure delivery over-the-air of new and creative mobile services to consumers – as well as an insight into forthcoming technical releases.


The cost of the training session is $995 for GlobalPlatform members, and $1,295 for employees of China Unicom, China Mobile, China Telecom and Java Card Forum members. The cost for all other attendees is $1,495.

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