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Austria: Trial Puts Train Tickets On Embedded Chip

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Scope: 
Trial
Status: 
Completed
Vienna
Austria
48.2092
16.3728
Launch: 
Jan 2009
Main Application: 
Ticketing (transit)
Mobile Operator: 
mobilkom Austria
Service Provider (application): 
ÖBB
Service Provider (application): 
Austrian national railway (VDV-KA transit ticket)
Users: 
200, half customers and half conductors
NFC Handsets: 
Nokia 6212
Secure Element: 
Embedded
Other Vendors: 
Innovision (tags), NXP Semiconductors (NFC phone chip, secure element)

Users could buy rail tickets and have them loaded onto a secure chip embedded in the phones. Conductors could then check the tickets by tapping their NFC phones to those of the customers.

NFC Times Take: 

M-commerce pioneer mobilkom intends to move the ticketing application to SIM cards it issues to subscribers once phones become available with a standard connection between the NFC and SIM chips.

 

 

* Trusted Service Manager: Defined loosely to include companies or other organizations securely distributing, provisioning and managing applications, generally over the air, on secure elements in NFC mobile phones; or licensing their platforms for this purpose.

N/A: Not available or not applicable.

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