Oberthur Technologies shows visual voicemail service using a multimedia SIM card

Just when we talked about Oberthur’s EcoSIM card, the company announced that it has demoed a visual voicemail service running on their Multimedia SIM Card GIGANTIC WUAOW during the CARTES & Identification 2009 exhibition in Paris. Oberthur’s “partner in crime” is Spanish Telefonica (NYSE: TEF), which will undoubtedly sell the service as soon as all trials are completed. Moreover, we’ve no doubts other carriers will jump on board, selling visual voicemail to all the feature phone-ownin’ (no smartphone is needed, as far as I’ve understood) folks out there. A new revenue stream for the carriers has emerged, and I bet they won’t miss it.