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English: A break-apart SIM Card showing the original SIM size (full image), a Mini-SIM size, and a Micro-SIM size card. It is meant as a comparison of GSM Micro-SIM vs. Mini-SIM Cards. The Micro-SIM card is also known as Third Form Factor (3FF).
A typical SIM card (mini-SIM with micro-SIM cutout) A SIM card or SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) is an integrated circuit (IC) intended to securely store an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) number and its related key, which are used to identify and authenticate subscribers on mobile telephone devices (such as mobile phones and laptops).
Four example SIM card sizes that use the ISO/IEC 7816 interface. Created in 1988, updated in 1999, amended in 2004, updated in 2007. The standard defines an eight (or six) pin interface; the first pin is located at the bottom-right corner for the image given. Pins 4 and 8 are occasionally omitted. [4]
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In 2G networks, the SIM card and SIM application were bound together, so that "www SIM card" could mean the physical card, or any physical card with the SIM application. In a GSM network, the UICC contains a SIM application and in a UMTS network, it contains a USIM application. A UICC may contain several applications, making it possible for the ...
However, dual SIM technologies have been found not to work with some phones. This device, and those like it, use a small microcontroller (the original Turbo SIM used an Atmel ATmega128) to intercept traffic between the cell phone and the original SIM card, and modify this traffic based on programming stored in the microcontroller. [3]
Multi-SIM technology allows cloning up to 12 GSM SIM cards (of format COMP128v1) into one card. The subscriber can leave the original cards in a secure place and use only the multi-SIM card in day to day life. For telecom operator-provided cards, only the Group MSISDN number is known to multi-SIM subscribers.