A limited number of Landesbank Berlin and Visa Europe employees in Berlin and Frankfurt, respectively, NFC Times Take:
The trial is perhaps the first in Germany of contactless-mobile payment. There are few contactless point-of-sale terminals in Germany, however, and Visa said it is only hoping to announce the first German retailer to accept payWave early in 2012. Landesbank told NFC Times it has been in talks with four major German mobile operators about NFC trials, but they are not ready yet to test full NFC. But both operators and banks in Germany are interested in contactless and mobile payment. Visa Europe in Germany has announced six savings banks will begin issuing contactless EMV cards in 2012. The card network estimates there will be 500,000 payWave cards issued and 2,000 payWave acceptance locations in Germany by the end of this year.
* 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.
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Last update: Jan. 2012
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