Topic “Nokia 6131”

Spain: BBVA Trial Part of Budding M-Payment Strategy

Scope: 
Trial
Status: 
Completed
Launch: 
Jun 2007
Main Application: 
Payment
Users: 
200

The internal trial enabled staffers to tap their assigned Nokia 6131 NFC phones preloaded with a Visa payWave credit or debit application at a handful of merchant locations in Madrid.

Netherlands: Home-Healthcare Providers Deploy NFC

Scope: 
Rollout
Status: 
In progress
Launch: 
Dec 2005
Main Application: 
Workforce management (home healthcare)
Users: 
50,000

In terms of handsets numbers, the Nedap project is one of the largest uses of NFC phones anywhere.

UK: RBS Tests Contactless Debit at HQ

Scope: 
Trial
Status: 
Completed
Launch: 
Nov 2007
Main Application: 
Payment

RBS ran a small trial among employees at its Edinburgh headquarters using a PayPass debit application. The trial was to last just a couple of months and lead to a second phase with real customers.

U.S.: Bank Runs Internal payWave Trial

Scope: 
Trial
Status: 
Completed
Est. Launch: 
Early 2007
Main Application: 
Payment
Users: 
Phase 1: 10 to 15, phase 2: about 50

Internal trial tested contactless payment, including payWave in the planned second phase. The employees could also store and redeem mobile coupons and monitor credit and debit accounts on the phone.

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UK: Transport for London Uses NFC to Help Riders Change Trains

Scope: 
Trial
Status: 
Completed
Launch: 
Aug 2007
Main Application: 
Information discovery
Users: 
Limited

Trial organizers installed 19 smart posters at the Blackfriars transit hub.

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Switzerland: Trial Tests Idea of NFC Payment Without POS Terminals

Scope: 
Trial
Launch: 
Dec 2009
Main Application: 
Payment
Users: 
80

The trial uses NFC’s reader mode for retail payment. Users tap NFC tags on shelves at one or more small country stores, collecting items in a digital shopping basket stored on their NFC phones.

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Austria: ‘Rollout’ Uses NFC Reader Mode To Sell Tickets and Snacks

Scope: 
Rollout
Status: 
In progress
Launch: 
Sep 2007
Main Application: 
Ticketing (transit)
Users: 
20,000

Billed by mobilkom as the world’s first NFC “rollout,” the project put the Nokia 6131 on sale in shops in fall 2007, following a trial

Results: 

Mobilkom says it has seen a significant increase in transactions for mobile ticketing, vending and other mobile commerce services thanks to NFC, which cuts out the number of steps users must carry out to conduct the SMS- or mobile-Internet based transactions. The telco hasn’t released transaction figures involving the NFC phones, however. It says it has sold 40,000 of the Nokia 6131 and 6212 NFC phones since putting them in stores in fall 2007, although it acknowledges it probably would have sold as many of the same models without NFC. All told, mobilkom has installed 470 tags in subway stations and 100 in national railway stations, along with 450 on vending machines in stations. It has also distributed 200,000 “personal” tags in the phone kits, which subscribers can tap to more easily play the mobile lottery, buy ringtones and use other services.

 

 

* 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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Austria: Merchants Tap Phones To Activate and Redeem Gift Vouchers

Scope: 
Rollout
Status: 
In progress
Launch: 
Nov 2008
Main Application: 
Couponing

The project, aimed at merchants in the historic center of the northern Austrian town of Wels, embeds RFID chips in paper gift vouchers and enables the merchants to activate and also redeem the 10-euro

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Philippines: Nokia Modifies 6131 To Handle SIM-Based Payment for Trial

Scope: 
Trial
Status: 
Completed
Launch: 
Nov 2008
Main Application: 
Payment
Users: 
Limited

The trial was one of nearly a dozen Pay-Buy Mobile projects encouraged by the GSM Association, which represents mobile operators.

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Singapore: SingTel Trial Enables OTA Reloads of NETS Purse

Scope: 
Trial
Status: 
Completed
Launch: 
Aug 2008
Main Application: 
Payment, Loyalty (couponing)
Users: 
250

The six-month payment and couponing trial enabled subscribers to tap to pay with a contactless e-purse from bank-owned payment company Network for Electronic Transfers Singapore, or NETS.

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HEADLINE NEWS

Australian Transit Agency to Launch Mobility-as-a-Service Trial as It Pursues Long-Term MaaS Strategy

Plans by Transport for New South Wales, Australia’s largest transit agency, to launch a trial enabling users to plan, book and pay for multimodal rides is the next step toward the agency’s long-ter

Updated: U.S. Transit Agency Seeks to Reduce–Though Not Eliminate–Cash Acceptance with New Fare-Collection System

Updated: The Spokane Transit Authority in Washington state confirmed that its new fare-collection system will include contactless open-loop payments–with a beta test planned for next October, a spokesman told NFC Times' sister publication Mobility Payments.

UK Government Seeks to Bring London-Style Contactless Fare Payments System to Other Regions

The UK government’s plan to equip 700 rail stations over the next three years to accept contactless open-loop payments is a major initiative, as it seeks to replicate the success of London’s contactless pay-as-you go fare payments system elsewhere in the country–a goal that has proved elusive in the past.

More Cities in Finland Expected to Move to Open-Loop Fare Payments

A fourth city in Finland is beginning to roll out contactless open-loop payments, with “more in the pipeline,” according to one supplier on the project, making the Nordic country one of the latest hotspots for the technology.

Moscow Metro Expands Test of ‘Virtual Troika’ in Pays Wallets, as It Continues to Develop Digital-Payments Services

Moscow Metro is recruiting more users to test its “Virtual Troika” card in two NFC wallets, those supporting Google Pay and Samsung Pay, as one of the world’s largest subway operators continues to seek more ways for its customers to pay for rides.

Ohio Transit Agency Expects Significant Revenue Loss as it Builds Equity with Fare Capping

The Central Ohio Transit Authority, or COTA, officially launched its new digital-payments service Monday, including a fare-capping feature that the agency estimates will cost it $1.8 million per year in lost fare revenue, the agency confirmed to Mobility Payments.

Special Report: Interest Grows in ‘White-Label EMV’ for Closed-Loop Transit Cards

As more transit agencies introduce open-loop fare payments, interest is starting to grow in use of white-label EMV cards that agencies can issue in place of proprietary closed-loop cards for riders who don’t have bank cards or don’t want to use them to pay fares.

Swedish Transit Agency Launches Express Mode Feature for Apple Pay, though Most Ticketing Still with Barcode-Based App

Skånetrafiken, the transit agency serving one of Sweden’s largest counties, announced today it has expanded its contactless open-loop payments service to include the Express Mode feature for Apple Pay.

Major Bus Operators in Hong Kong Now Accepting Open-Loop Payments–Adding More Competition for Octopus

Two more bus operators in Hong Kong on Saturday launched acceptance of open-loop contactless fare payments, with both also accepting QR code-based mobile ticketing–as the near ubiquitous closed-loop Octopus card continues to see more competition.

Moscow Metro Launches Full Rollout of ‘Face Pay;’ Largest Biometric Payments Service of Its Kind

Touting it as the largest rollout of biometric payments in the world, Moscow Metro launched its high-profile “Face Pay” service Friday, as expected, and predicted that 10% to 15% would regularly us

Indonesian Capital Seeks to Expand to Multimodal Fare Collection and MaaS

Indonesia’s capital Jakarta, whose metropolitan area is home to more than 30 million people, is notorious for its stifling traffic congestion. In response, the government metro and light-rail networks and now it is funding an expansion of the fare-collection system to enable more multimodal payments and to build a mobility-as-a-service platform.

Exclusive: NFC Wallets Grow as Share of Contactless Fare Payments and Not Only Because of Covid

Transit agencies that have rolled out open-loop contactless payments are seeing growing use of NFC wallets to pay fares, as Covid-wary passengers see convenience in tapping their phones or wearables to pay.