The MULTOS Consortium

MULTOS is an open, non-proprietary, all inclusive smart card operating system. To ensure its openness and to further advance its adoption into all smart card related markets, the control of the MULTOS specification is contractually invested in The MULTOS Consortium. The MULTOS Consortium is also known as MAOSCO and MAOSCO Limited is the legal name of the secretariat company.

The MULTOS Consortium is a group of international blue chip organisations, whose objective is to promote MULTOS as the smart card industry standard across all market sectors. The diversity of the consortium membership reflects the interests of companies in many sectors, including telecommunications, e-commerce, travel, entertainment, retail, media and government/public sectors. It is the consortium members, as a group, who are also responsible for the ongoing maintenance and development of the MULTOS specification.

The MULTOS Consortium comprises organisations who are...

• Global - MULTOS is a global not a national or regional standard.
• Cross industry - We have members of both supply and demand sides of the smart card industry.
• Multiple industry - from telecommunications, financial services, pay and satellite TV, Internet and e-commerce, public sector

Any company may become involved in MULTOS and join The MULTOS Consortium, either providing products or services related to MULTOS or by licensing the MULTOS specification and producing a MULTOS implementation. Such organisations benefit from the co-ordinated marketing and other activities of the consortium.

For further details of The MULTOS Consortium, including how to join, please contact us using our web form.