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France: Bouygues Tries NFC Transit in Paris
The three-month trial was the first for Bouygues and followed a three-month internal trial with the same transit operator. The public trial enabled users to pay their fares at gates and at readers onboard buses that accept the Navigo contactless fare card by tapping the phones. Users also could recharge over the mobile Internet service i-mode. Bouygues had an NFC-like phone from Japanese handset maker NEC specially designed for the trial because an available Nokia NFC phone using an NFC chip from Philips Semiconductors (now NXP Semiconductors), did not support the application on the SIM.
Bouygues’ first important trial set the stage for follow-up transit ticketing and payment pilots in France. It was used one an early and nonstandard implementation of the Single Wire Protocol, connecting the NFC chip to the SIM card storing the transit application. Bouygues and other French operators insist that all secure NFC applications will be stored on their SIMs.
* 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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