what is sim any body can tell me about it?

**baadshah26gold** · 7th July 2010, 07:29 PM

آج سر نے پوچھا کے سم کیا ھے میں نے کہا کل بتاؤں گا پلیز ھیلپ می،

**BIG BROTHER** · 7th July 2010, 07:49 PM

Subscriber
identification
module

**arslannice** · 7th July 2010, 07:57 PM

SIM (Subscriber Identity Module)

A subscriber identity module (SIM) on a removable SIM card securely stores the service-subscriber key (IMSI) used to identify a subscriber on mobile telephony devices (such as mobile phones and computers). The SIM card allows users to change phones by simply removing the SIM card from one mobile phone and inserting it into another mobile phone or broadband telephony device.
A SIM card contains its unique serial number, internationally unique number of the mobile user (IMSI), security authentication and ciphering information, temporary information related to the local network, a list of the services the user has access to and two passwords (PIN for usual use and PUK for unlocking).
SIM cards are available in three standard sizes. The first is the size of a credit card (85.60 mm × 53.98 mm x 0.76 mm). The newer, most popular miniature version has the same thickness but a length of 25 mm and a width of 15 mm, and has one of its corners truncated (chamfered) to prevent misinsertion. The newest incarnation known as the 3FF or micro-SIM has dimensions of 15 mm × 12 mm. Most cards of the two smaller sizes are supplied as a full-sized card with the smaller card held in place by a few plastic links; it can easily be broken off to be used in a device that uses the smaller SIM. A device manufactured by NooSY Apple[1] has now been released allowing the conversion of mini-SIM cards to micro-SIM cards via a mechanism not unlike that of a hole-puncher.
The first SIM card was made in 1991, with Munich smart card maker Giesecke & Devrient selling the first 300 SIM cards to Finnish wireless network operator Radiolinja.

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