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Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) Card Market size is set to grow by USD 2.28 billion from 2024-2028, Growing migration to 5G network to boost the market growth, Technavio

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NEW YORK, June 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The global subscriber identification module (SIM) card market  size is estimated to grow by USD 2.28 billion from 2024-2028, according to Technavio. The market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of almost 9.16%  during the forecast period.  Growing migration to 5g network is driving market growth, with a trend towards introduction of e-sim in telecommunications. However, need for registration of sim cards  poses a challenge. Key market players include Bartronics India Ltd., dz Card International Ltd., Eastcompeace Technology Co. Ltd., Giesecke Devrient GmbH, Hengbao Co. Ltd., IDEMIA France SAS, STMicroelectronics International N.V., Thales Group, WATCHDATA TECHNOLOGIES Pte. Ltd., Workz Group, and Wuhan Tianyu Information Industry Co. Ltd..

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Forecast period

2024-2028

Base Year

2023

Historic Data

2018 – 2022

Segment Covered

Type (Hybrid SIM, Micro SIM (3FF), Mini SIM (2FF), and Nano SIM (4FF)), Capacity (128KB, 64KB, 32KB, 256KB, and 512KB), and Geography (APAC, North America, Europe, South America, and Middle East and Africa)

Region Covered

APAC, North America, Europe, South America, and Middle East and Africa

Key companies profiled

Bartronics India Ltd., dz Card International Ltd., Eastcompeace Technology Co. Ltd., Giesecke Devrient GmbH, Hengbao Co. Ltd., IDEMIA France SAS, STMicroelectronics International N.V., Thales Group, WATCHDATA TECHNOLOGIES Pte. Ltd., Workz Group, and Wuhan Tianyu Information Industry Co. Ltd.

Key Market Trends Fueling Growth

The e-SIM market is set to expand due to the integration of e-SIMs and removable SIMs in dual SIM smartphones. This innovation caters to the short replacement cycles in developed markets and the longer cycles in emerging ones. Collaboration between vendors and e-SIM service providers will further fuel market growth during the forecast period. 

The Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) card market is experiencing significant growth, driven by the increasing demand for mobile connectivity and advanced technologies. Phones and SIM cards are essential components in this industry, with producers focusing on creating compact and efficient solutions.

Consumers are looking for devices that offer better performance, longer battery life, and improved security features. Technologies like NFC, GPS, and biometric authentication are trending in this sector. Additionally, the integration of IoT devices and the implementation of 5G networks are expected to further boost the market. Overall, the SIM card market is a dynamic and innovative space, with companies constantly striving to meet consumer demands and stay ahead of the competition. 

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Market Challenges

The Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) card market is facing challenges due to the mandatory registration of SIM cards in over 80 countries. This policy requires consumers to provide proof of identity, leading to a reduction in criminal activity. However, an estimated billion people lack the necessary identity documents, limiting their ability to register for SIM cards.False document submissions result in penalties for operators, decreasing demand and production volume. Consequently, SIM card market growth may be hindered during the forecast period.The Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) card market faces several challenges. Technological advancements, such as the introduction of eSIMs and iSIMs, require adaptability and innovation from market players.Security concerns, including the risk of hacking and data breaches, necessitate robust security measures. Regulations, like the eIDAS Regulation and the GDPR, impose strict compliance requirements. Consumer preferences for affordable and high-performance cards add to the complexity.Competition from other identification technologies, like biometrics, also poses a threat. Markets in developing countries present opportunities but come with unique challenges, such as infrastructure limitations and affordability issues. Overall, the SIM card market requires a strategic approach to address these challenges and maintain competitiveness.

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Segment Overview 

Type 1.1 Hybrid SIM1.2 Micro SIM (3FF)1.3 Mini SIM (2FF)1.4 Nano SIM (4FF)Capacity 2.1 128KB2.2 64KB2.3 32KB2.4 256KB2.5 512KBGeography 3.1 APAC3.2 North America3.3 Europe3.4 South America3.5 Middle East and Africa

1.1 Hybrid SIM-  The Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) card market is a significant component of the telecommunications industry. Businesses issue SIM cards to customers, enabling them to access mobile services. This market continues to grow as more individuals and organizations adopt mobile technologies.

SIM cards facilitate various functions, such as phone calls, text messaging, and mobile internet access. Companies manufacture and sell these cards to mobile network operators, who in turn provide them to subscribers. The SIM card market’s size and growth are driven by factors like increasing smartphone penetration, the proliferation of IoT devices, and the expansion of mobile broadband networks.

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Research Analysis

The Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) card market encompasses the production, distribution, and sales of SIM cards for various mobile telephony devices, including mobile phones, computers, and specialized handsets such as Triple SIM Functionality (Triple SIM FF) phones. Integrated circuits are a crucial component in the manufacturing of SIM cards. SIM card registrations are essential for activating mobile services, and advancements in technology, such as E-SIM, are transforming the industry.

The market caters to diverse telecommunications technologies, including GSM Phones, CDMA Phones, LTE Handsets, and even Satellite Phones. Product pricing and consumer behavior significantly influence the market dynamics, with the National GDP playing a role in shaping the demand for SIM cards in different regions.

Market Research Overview

The Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) card market refers to the business sector involved in the production, sale, and distribution of SIM cards. These cards are essential components in mobile communication systems, enabling user identification and network access. The market for SIM cards is driven by the increasing global adoption of mobile technology and the proliferation of smartphones. Additionally, the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the integration of SIM cards into various devices are expanding the market’s scope.

The SIM card market caters to various sectors, including telecommunications, automotive, healthcare, and logistics, among others. The market is characterized by its competitive landscape, with numerous players offering various types of SIM cards, such as standard, micro, and nano SIMs. The market also experiences constant innovation, with advancements in security features, such as two-factor authentication and biometric verification, enhancing the value proposition for consumers. Furthermore, the market is influenced by regulatory frameworks, technological advancements, and consumer preferences.

Table of Contents:

1 Executive Summary
2 Market Landscape
3 Market Sizing
4 Historic Market Size
5 Five Forces Analysis
6 Market Segmentation

TypeHybrid SIMMicro SIM (3FF)Mini SIM (2FF)Nano SIM (4FF)Capacity128KB64KB32KB256KB512KBGeographyAPACNorth AmericaEuropeSouth AmericaMiddle East And Africa

7 Customer Landscape
8 Geographic Landscape
9 Drivers, Challenges, and Trends
10 Company Landscape
11 Company Analysis
12 Appendix

About Technavio

Technavio is a leading global technology research and advisory company. Their research and analysis focuses on emerging market trends and provides actionable insights to help businesses identify market opportunities and develop effective strategies to optimize their market positions.

With over 500 specialized analysts, Technavio’s report library consists of more than 17,000 reports and counting, covering 800 technologies, spanning across 50 countries. Their client base consists of enterprises of all sizes, including more than 100 Fortune 500 companies. This growing client base relies on Technavio’s comprehensive coverage, extensive research, and actionable market insights to identify opportunities in existing and potential markets and assess their competitive positions within changing market scenarios.

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IronNet Inc. and Asterion Partner to Strengthen Cybersecurity and Counter-UAS Defense Solutions

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WASHINGTON and MANAMA, Bahrain, Nov. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — IronNet, the AI-based collective defense cybersecurity company, and Asterion, a leader in counter-UAS technology, announced today at the Bahrain International Airshow a partnership on the protection of critical infrastructure through the integration of AI-based cybersecurity and counter-UAS solutions.

This collaboration addresses the growing need for comprehensive and integrated defense strategies, representing a significant milestone in the evolution of air and space security. To enhance defense capabilities against unauthorized and hostile drones, the partnership integrates IronNet’s IronDome solution with Asterion’s advanced counter-UAS technology, delivering a layered defense framework that strengthens the protection of critical infrastructure, urban environments, and national borders.

The partnership integrates IronNet’s “IronDome” real-time cyber threat detection and coordinated response with Asterion’s drone detection and tracking systems, protecting airspace and critical assets from potential threats.

The methodology employs artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced sensor networks to analyze patterns and anomalies across a broad range of data sources. The result is a more robust and proactive defense system capable of identifying and mitigating threats before they can cause significant damage.

“Our partnership with Asterion represents a paradigm shift in how we approach critical infrastructure protection,” said Linda Zecher, CEO of IronNet. “By embracing the convergence of cyber and aerial threat detection and defense, governments and organizations can ensure a more comprehensive and effective approach to safeguarding critical infrastructure and national interests.”

“Together we’re creating a solution that addresses the multi-dimensional threats facing our clients today, including those originating from both ground, air and space-based sources,” said Andreas Mustert, Asterion Founder and CTO

About IronNet 

Founded in 2014, IronNet combines cutting-edge cybersecurity technology with exceptional expertise to deliver advanced, real-time defense solutions for organizations across the private and public sectors worldwide. Leveraging a team of top-tier cybersecurity specialists from industry, government, and academia, IronNet is dedicated to protecting enterprises, critical infrastructure, and nations against highly organized and increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. With its industry-leading products and innovative approach, IronNet empowers clients to stay ahead of evolving cyber adversaries.

About Asterion 

A team of sensor, wireless IP and aircraft design specialists, all with outstanding track-records in their fields, have gathered in Asterion to follow a vision of creating a system of a fully networked early risk detection and game changing, collateral damage avoiding, protection of both local high-risk assets as well as long range border crossing threats, through groundbreaking efficiency and EW protected wireless communications. Rather than considering current risks, contemplating any conceivable future countermeasures is an important part of Asterion’s mission.

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Laconic and the Plurinational State of Bolivia announce landmark 5 Billion USD Sovereign Carbon Transaction

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CHICAGO and LA PAZ, Bolivia, Nov. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Laconic Infrastructure Partners Inc. (Laconic), announced today that it has been mandated by the Plurinational State of Bolivia to utilize its SADAR™ Natural Capital Monetization (NCM) platform to provide technology transfer in support of Bolivia’s capacity building initiatives as it seeks to finance the enhanced ambition set forth in its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC).

By using Laconic’s first-of-its-kind carbon securitization platform, multiple large-scale environmental data streams will be aggregated to monetize up to 5BN USD of Bolivia’s present & future carbon stocks in the world’s first Article 6 compliant benchmark Sovereign Carbon sale.

“The Plurinational State of Bolivia is committed to completely ending deforestation within our territorial borders by 2030”, said Marcelo Montenegro Gomez Garcia, Minister of Economy & Public Finance. “By working with Laconic, we have been able, for the first time, to generate sufficient development financing to enable our country to make this commitment a reality and enhancing our ambition under the Paris Agreement. This benefits not only our own citizens, but all of mankind, as we collectively strive to meet NetZero 2050.”

By creating its unique Sovereign Carbon product, Laconic has revolutionized financial intermediation in the global carbon market by allowing carbon to be traded as a true financial asset for the first time. This capability allows governments to efficiently monetize their natural capital assets by issuing bona fide securities to institutional buyers at scale globally.

The Sovereign Carbon market is the only mechanism capable of generating the 1 Trillion USD of carbon trading required annually for mankind to achieve its collective NetZero pledge.

Laconic’s unique technology platform, SADAR™, works continuously to manage the data streams which the Sovereign Carbon product requires – ensuring compliance with the not only the Paris Agreement itself, but all applicable local and regional regulatory authorities governing the carbon market. Governments rely on Laconic to ensure seamless compliance with their treaty commitments, allowing them to focus on further enhancing their NDC ambitions and accelerating the pace of global decarbonization.

“Laconic is honored to be working with the Plurinational State of Bolivia to champion the innovative Sovereign Carbon market”, said Andrew Gilmour, CEO of Laconic. “This transaction demonstrates the power of technology to drive change in emerging markets finance, as, for the first time, we are able to collectively harness market forces to generate more economic growth from the preservation of natural capital assets than from the exploitation of them. Put simply – our technology has made it possible to make more money preserving your forests than you can by cutting them down.”

About Laconic
Laconic delivers accurate environmental intelligence, data management tools, and geospatially-fused insights that enable governments, corporations, and financial institutions to engage fairly in data interchange activities that facilitate open and compliant capital markets activity in carbon-linked instruments.

Founded in 2021, the company is a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) headquartered in Chicago, with offices in Toronto, London, and Singapore.

For more information, please visit www.laconicglobal.com.

Laconic and SADAR (Sentient All-Domain Augmented Response), LUEI, and LUCID are trademarks or registered trademarks of Laconic Infrastructure Partners Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. All other names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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Kyndryl Unveils Dedicated AI Private Cloud in Japan to Accelerate Customer Deployment of AI Services

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Kyndryl AI private cloud supports customer testing and adoption using the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA

Private AI cloud is also available to Japanese academic institutions for AI research and innovation

TOKYO, Nov. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, today launched a dedicated AI private cloud designed to enable AI innovation in Japan. Supported by a collaboration with Dell Technologies using the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, Kyndryl is establishing a controlled, security-rich and sovereign cloud where organizations can develop, test and implement AI services that expand their ability to compete and accelerate business performance.

Kyndryl’s new AI private cloud in Japan will help financial institutions, insurance providers, manufacturers, retail companies, and academics to confidently design and prepare to deploy innovative AI-powered solutions.

Under the collaboration, Kyndryl is establishing a Kyndryl Vital AI Lab capability that will leverage the AI-powered open integration digital business platform, Kyndryl Bridge, to support end-to-end AI applications and solution development on the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform. Kyndryl experts will assist with envisioning and co-creating solutions that harness the benefits of generative AI and large language models to drive innovation and achieve business objectives. Kyndryl also will apply the domain and industry expertise of Kyndryl Consult to advance customers’ ability to create, verify and deliver AI at scale.

“Organizations want to explore and understand how AI and generative AI can enhance and accelerate their business and technology transformation initiatives. They need a reliable and scalable environment with advanced security capabilities where they can develop, test and refine new solutions,” said Jonathan Ingram, President, Kyndryl Japan. “Our new AI private cloud with the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA will provide a stable and trusted space where customers and Japanese academic institutions can confidently and privately design new applications and solutions, with support for their security, sovereignty, and data residency requirements.”

Customers using the AI private cloud environment also can access Kyndryl’s decades of experience supporting and managing mission critical applications and systems. The collaboration also will leverage Kyndryl’s ongoing work with NVIDIA that is focused on driving the development, implementation and use of solutions that deliver AI-powered insights and business outcomes.

“The Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA integrates Dell’s leading AI portfolio with the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform, providing Kyndryl customers the option to procure an end-to-end, pre-validated, full stack infrastructure,” said Kyle Dufresne, SVP, AI solutions sales, Dell Technologies. “With this collaboration, Kyndryl customers can get started on a wide range of AI and generative AI use cases that require security and performance, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), model training, and inferencing.”

“Enterprises need next-gen expertise and skills to drive innovation within their businesses and tackle today’s AI challenges,” said Bob Pette, Vice President of Enterprise Platforms, NVIDIA. “The combination of Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA and Kyndryl’s infrastructure services experience will provide the technical foundation and know-how that organizations require to develop and deploy AI at scale.”

Kyndryl will support a variety of customer use cases via its AI private cloud and plans to explore ways the environment can be optimized to enable efficient workload orchestration and workload placement, along with examining how it can enable fractional GPU capabilities to support more granular control over computing resources. 

To accelerate customer adoption and implementation of generative AI solutions Kyndryl also plans to leverage NVIDIA NeMo, NVIDIA NeMo Retriever and NVIDIA NIM microservices, all part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise platform for the development and deployment of production-grade generative AI applications. This will advance customers’ ability to transform the build, operation and scale-out of an AI factory, leveraging AI integrations across the NVIDIA stack for smooth performance of the AI private cloud.

Through Kyndryl’s new dedicated private AI cloud service, customers can tap into a wealth of expertise crucial to their adoption of AI at scale, with support for their data security, sovereignty, and residency requirements.

Learn more about Kyndryl’s collaborations with Dell and NVIDIA.

About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, serving thousands of enterprise customers in more than 60 countries. The company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex, mission-critical information systems that the world depends on every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.

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