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Czech Republic: O2 to Launch Trial with Two Banks, Hypermarket
The six-month trial will enable 400 O2 Czech Republic subscribers to tap their 2G Samsung NFC phones with a preinstalled O2 Wallet to pay at four hypermarkets in Prague and Pilsen. For purchases over CZK 500 (US$29.70) the phone application will ask the customer to key in a “PassCode” on his handset. It will compare this PIN to one stored in the SIM card. In Pilsen, some users can tap to pay bus fares, using a separate transit application. O2 and the transit agency in Pilsen held an NFC trial in 2009, which represents the first phase of the trial planned in June.
O2 Czech Republic said it plans to launch NFC commercially by 2012 and make NFC-enabled SIM cards that can carry payment cards a “standard offering,” next year. It would use such expected NFC phones as the Samsung Galaxy S II and various BlackBerry models. Sister O2 operators in other countries plan to do the same. But there are no contactless terminals at the retail point of sale in the Czech Republic. Komerční bank is installing among the first in the country for the planned trial at a few Globus hypermarkets.
* 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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