Full-scale post-issuance services for (U)SIM and R-UIM
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Managing emitted (U)SIM and R-UIM cards is an important and very often inevitable task. The necessity to change SMSC numbers, update PLMN/FPLMN or Service provider name(SPN) and similar operations appears time to time in any network.CellOTA is a package of managed OTA services offered by Cellnetrix covering scheduling, implementation and operation of OTA campaigns including remote file updates, Java card applet management modification of individual SIM-toolkit menu items, post-issuance software patching and other customer specific operations.

OTA management services consist of the following operations

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Software bugs and configuration fixes: loading of patches,modification of system files and internal variables fixing software bugs orconfiguration errors.

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File structure modification: post-personalization, ex. IMSI change, other changes in configuration (SPN, SMSC, PLMN, FPLMN, …etc).

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Application management: loading and deletion of Java Card applets and native applications

 

Main Features

  • Support of several data bearers such as SMS-PP and BIP being fully compliant with existing ETSI and 3GPP standards as well as proprietary OTA implementations of major smart card manufacturers.
  • Designed for project based OTA campaigns with certain input and output scenarios, CellOTA guarantees high security level and full atomicity of download operations.
  • In addition to binary updates it is possible to build more sophisticated scripts including plain and UCS2 notification SMS, WAP PUSH, MMS and even e-mail.
  • Being a fully managed solution CellOTA is hosted either on the dedicated server or on the virtual in-house platform.
Supported OTA campaign modes

Operative
Operative time-limited operations related to one-time (U)SIM/R-UIM-card software, file structure or (U)SIM-applications updates performed according to the agreed schedule.

Periodical
Periodical operations related to (U)SIM software, file structure or applications update performed according to agreed schedule.

Permanent
All permanently maintained OTA services triggered by a user or by an external application, ex. change of PLMN list in roaming, etc.