Standards Battle Continues To Slow High-Speed SIM

摘要

No matter how many hundreds of megabytes vendors try to pack into their proposed SIM cards, unless it has a way to receive data quickly from handsets, all that extra memory would be of little use to mobile network operators and subscribers. But the operators, along with handset makers and card vendors, emerged deadlocked in January when they tried to adopt a standard for how SIMs and handsets can communicate at a faster rate. At present, SIMs and handsets pass data back and forth at no more than 115 kilobits per second, meaning it would take more than 8 minutes for a subscriber to download a 1-megabyte music or video track from the phone to his card.