Figures

2002 Card Shipments figures per sector

  Card
(Mu)
Sectors Memory
(MU)
Microcontroller
Telecom 950 430
Financial
services/loyalty
23 175
Government/
Healthcare
30 32
Transport 60 15
Pay TV 0 35
IT Security 9 7
Others 13 7
     
TOTAL 1085 701
TOTAL 2002 1786

 

Main Segment Sub Segments Definition
Telecom Wireless cards issued by telecom operators for accessing services through
wireless mobile networks (voice, data services…)
Public Phone cards issued by telecom operators to be used as prepaid tokens in
public phones
Financial
Services
Retail-Loyalty
Banking cards issued by banks for various services (debit, credit, prepaid
schemes…)
Retailers / payment cards issued by retailers under their own brand, bearing a domestic or
international payment brand
Private Label Card Operators payment cards issued by a service provider on behalf of a retailer,
under its own brand or on the retailer’s brand.
Retailers – Non-payments cards issued by retailers for stand alone loyalty service
Oil loyalty cards issued by petrol distributors.
Government /
healthcare
National / Local administration cards issued by governmental bodies for citizens identification and
online services
Transport Transport cards issued by operators, for transport, toll or car park services.
Pay TV PayTV networks cards issued by pay-TV operators for decrypting TV signals and
enabling services
IT Security IT Security cards issued by private companies and organisations for securing
physical and logical access to their infrastructure
Others Others all other segments

 
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