Motorola's 2G Dual Interface Smart Card Unites Transit and Proton Stored Value.

Business & Technology Editors

CardTech/SecurTech 2000

MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 2, 2000

Motorola (NYSE:MOT) announced today its second-generation dual interface (contacted/contactless) multi-application smart card. Known as the Motorola M-Smart Venus(TM) MV5000, the card integrates a hardware cryptographic engine and other enhancements to cut contactless transaction time in half compared with currently available cards. A second version of the card, the MV5100, also supports the Proton 3 Electronic Purse and Proton Easy Entry banking applications from the contacted interface making the card an ideal multi-application platform in regions supporting both contactless automatic fare collection (AFC) and the Proton stored value system.

"The newest members of our M-Smart Venus family are an important milestone in our strategy to enable new business alliances that share multi-application smart card systems," said Francois Dutray, Motorola's vice president and general manager, Worldwide Smartcard Solutions Division. "This delivers on our promise of single card platforms that unite applications like transit, Proton, and access/ID for large populations of common users."

In AFC applications for transit systems, the M-Smart Venus MV5000 delivers several important advances over the current generation cards. Transactions are up to twice as fast and security is enhanced. The MV5100 version of the card is ideal for regions that want to share AFC with Proton branded open stored value solutions.

Armand Linkens, Proton World's Managing Director said: "Mass Transit is a key strategic market for Proton World. We see AFC as an important application for smart cards and an ideal ally for e-purse and stored value applications. We are very pleased to co-operate with Motorola on this integrated card solution, which creates a bridge between mass transit ticketing and our multi-application smart card technology. The Motorola MV5100 will meet, in a single card solution, the specific requirements of several different market segments."

A consortium of major smart card players created Proton World to develop applications for the Proton technology and to promote common international smart card and electronic purse standards. Proton is one of the world's most widely used smart card technologies, chosen by 20 countries to date and with more than 152 million e-purse transactions. It also has one of the world's largest acceptance bases, with more than 277,000 terminals installed worldwide.

The multi-application capabilities of the MV5000 are ideal for intelligent access control applications that combine physical access with network security and other user defined applications like asset management, cardholder identification or biometrics. The state of the art security architecture of the MV5000 and MV5100 enables any of these applications to coexist with the AFC transit application and the Proton 3 and Easy Entry electronic purse and banking applications.

As part of its total solutions strategy, Motorola also provides readers that enable transit operators or access control systems to add the MV5000 or MV5100 to their current system. The new Motorola multi-application smart card system supports both of these new cards and all of the Motorola smart-card platforms seamlessly through its common Application Programming Interface (API).

The MV5000 and MV5100 smart cards follow industry standards - the proposed ISO 14443 Type B for contactless, ISO 7816 for contacted and they are EMV 3.1.1 compliant.

Both the MV5000 and the MV5100 are planned for general availability in the 3rd quarter of 2000, and the MV5100 is undergoing certification by Proton World.

About Motorola Inc.

Motorola, Inc., with sales of $33.1 billion in 1999, is a global leader in providing embedded electronic and integrated communications solutions. Motorola's Worldwide Smartcard Solutions Division (WSSD) provides complete multi-application smart card system solutions including smart cards, application development, and systems integration and operations management. The company's platforms allow organizations to quickly deploy and build value-added smart card applications in areas such as transit, access control, campus, government, and healthcare.

M-Smart and M-Smart Venus are marks of Motorola, Inc.