As of February 14th, 2023 the iQsim company assets have been acquired by SPARK TECHNOLOGY France.
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First, what it ‘VSIM’ technology … It originates from the ‘Virtual SIM’ an acronym that iQsim has started to promote around 2010 … Not sure if they were the first to do so. It seems! We’ll say so …
However, since then, all the main actors have been using it … I’ll go in a later post in a comparison among all the existing competitors in this field! Keep watching …
Anyway, the “Virtual SIM” appeared to be an elegant way to illustrate what the technology does. It ‘virtualize’ the SIM Card … This is easily understandable and this was the goal. Using a couple of word which speaks to anyone !
Meaning the SIM Card is not here, it is ‘virtual’ … But this is not exactly true. At least this is 90% true. I’ll explain this in another post.
But the truth also, is that this was not really new. But as long as you present this as ‘new’ and it look like it is … then … it is ! and it was !
But in reality, this originates from a patent which was filled in the late 90’s . This patent, which was never claimed or disputed (to my knowledge) was about connecting a SIM Card remotely onto a GSM modem.
A couple or german company started to develop and use this mechanism for two main applications at the beginning of 2000. These companies were mainly Vierling, Implementa and Sigos, with a few others. A couple of years later, in 2002, QuesCom started to implement its own technology.
At that time, there were two main applications. One was about providing testing solutions for mobile carrriers to enhance their revenues, and the other, a bit later, was to build GSM Gateways in order to decrease the same revenues … in favor of what was called the ‘ITSP’, the Internet Telephony Service Providers in the early 2000’s … But this is another story !
This document describes the entire Mobile Testing solutions based on it’s Virtual SIM Technology.
Solutions are intended for use by Mobile Carriers, Virtual Mobile Carriers or Service Providers.
The document covers the following subjects:
Its a comprehensive high level complete solution for building any simple or complexe mobile testing scenarios for Todays 3G, 4G and soon 5G Mobile networks.
This document describes the entire iQsim SMS solutions based on it’s Virtual SIM Technology.
Solutions are intended for use by Services Providers and/or Enterprises.
The document covers the following subjects:
Its a comprehensive high level and some time a bit technical overview on iQsim’s Technologies applied to SMS.
Yes, as always we were exhibiting at Mobile World Congress 2019.
Same booth, on the French Pavillion, and exact same location since … Years!
We were pleased to receive each of you and discuss about our products and potential projects.
Thank you all for visiting us!
Thanks for visiting us at ITW 2018!
Meet us @ ITW 2018 in Chicago from May 6th to 9th
Meet us @ ITW 2018 in Chicago from May 6th to 9th
Meet us @ ITW 2018 in Chicago from May 6th to 9th