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IBM is building France Telecom's 50m user SSO service on Liberty Alliance.

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"Obviously, one of the key things here is that customers are demanding that providers not only support Liberty but go through the compliance tests," said Simon Nicholson, chair of the alliance's business and marketing group.

Nicholson, who is the manager of strategic industry initiatives for Sun Microsystems, said that phones will increasingly be the data access point that people use to get services, making single-sign-on systems even more important, since logging into a network with a phone is much slower than using a PC's keyboard.

Applications that France Telecom hopes that it or its partners will supply include instant messaging, location-based services, games, online banking and e-mail.