Simart Mi

2024: Product Release

At the end of March 2024, the Russian company Novakard released SIM cards with the domestic operating system Simart Mi on the market. The first such SIM cards began to be purchased by the mobile operator MTS.

According to TASS, citing a statement by the Novakard press service, Simart Mi OS supports international and domestic subscriber authentication algorithms in mobile networks. Previously, all sim-cards that were issued for the Russian Federation were based on foreign components and technologies, the company noted.

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According to Andrey Krupnov, Sales Director of Novakard, the new SIM cards have been thoroughly checked by Novakard and MTS specialists. It is noted that companies use their own domestic software to prepare data and generate key material for SIM cards.

"\Today MTS is perceived not only as a telecom operator, but first of all as an IT company with strong competencies in the development of digital products and software. Especially in those areas where it is necessary to replace foreign solutions that ensure the information security of our infrastructure and customers, "says Yury Nefedov, commercial director of the MTS mass market. - The use of a domestic OS in SIM cards is one of the first steps in import substitution of critical network components. In cooperation with NovaKard, we took an active part in testing samples of SIM-cards with new software.

The Simart MI operating system for SIM-cards is included in the unified register of Russian programs for electronic computers and databases. According to the developers, the OS has a high level of protection against bookmarks, malicious code and other vulnerabilities.^[1]

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