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Spain: Telefónica launches Large Employee Pilot with Payment and ID
The ambitious project, led by telco Telefónica in Spain, involves three banks, enabling 1,000 Telefónica employees to choose their own debit or credit card account from the banks involved in the trial, La Caixa, BBVA and Bankinter, and have it loaded onto Telefónica SIM cards and personalized over the air. They also can tap to enter work areas with an ID application stored on their SIMs, and can load meal vouchers or prepaid value on the cards for dining at company cafeterias and restaurants. Plans call for gradually expanding the project to 12,500 employees. The telco had originally planned to launch the employee trial last summer. It has since expanded the scope of the project to include payment.
NFC trial is probably the last for Telefónica before it rolls out NFC in Spain. The project is noteworthy for including multiple banks, though that is not unheard of, especially in France. If the project reaches all 12,500 employees at Telefónica headquarters, it would become the largest NFC trial on record, though it would probably cease to be considered only a trial at that point.
* 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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