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...In South Africa, a country where 40 per cent of maternal deaths are HIV/Aids-related and there are more Sims than people, Mama South Africa launched in May 2013....
...Apple went to war over their rival designs for the nano sim....
...The iPhone 4 launch was affected by a shortage of the micro SIM cards that were being used for the first time – so, this time, operators have stockpiled millions of the new nano SIMs adopted for the iPhone...
...The new “nano” Sim card design – the fourth since mobile phone Sims were introduced in the early 1990s – is 40 per cent smaller than the micro-Sim currently used in some handsets including Apple’s popular...
...The nano-Sim is thinner and about a third smaller than the micro-Sim, and would allow more space for other functions. Apple is backed by most of the European operators....
...Against that background Apple’s nano-Sim proposal, which has won the backing of European operators, looks like a compromise....
...The two technology companies are each vying to have rival Sim-card designs recognised by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) as the industry standard for the “nano-Sim”, a much smaller...
...(Bloomberg) ‘Nano-SIMs’ are being stockpiled by European telcos ahead of an expected new iPhone launch. (Financial Times) COMMENT AND CURIOS Has China’s overinvestment reached a tipping point?...
...says Mr Sims. Foreign-invested projects are not the only ones to attract local discontent....
...“Apple is applying pressure on the whole industry,” said Sim Wong Hoo, Creative chief executive....
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