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Spain: Telefónica Employee Trial to Test BlackBerrys for Payment and ID

Scope: 
Trial
Status: 
Planned
Madrid
Spain
40.4167
-3.70035
Est. Launch: 
Q4 2011
Main Application: 
Payment, access control
Mobile Operator: 
Telefónica
Service Provider (application): 
La Caixa (Visa payWave-likely), other banks
Telefónica (access control)
Merchants: 
Restaurants, retailers
Users: 
350
NFC Handsets: 
BlackBerry Bold 9900
BlackBerry Curve 9360
BlackBerry Curve 9380
TSM*: 
Oberthur Technologies (for Telefónica-likely)
Secure Element: 
SIM
Other Vendors: 
Inside Secure (NFC phone chip), Giesecke & Devrient (NFC SIM-likely), Sermepa (processing-likely), Infineon Technologies (embedded secure element-if used)

Telefónica has adapted its mobile wallet to run on at least three NFC-enabled BlackBerry models from Research In Motion that support a single-wire protocol connection to SIM cards in the phones–the

NFC Times Take: 

Telefónica, a large telco group, is a strong backer of NFC and has plans for commercial rollouts in 2012 in Spain and at its O2 branches in Europe. It also reportedly plans a trial in Brazil early in 2012. The plans mesh with RIM’s desire to sell more phones and apparently to work with mobile operators to enable SIM-based payment applications.

 

 

* 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.
Last update: Nov. 2011

 

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