The OSPT Alliance, a vendor group that seeks to challenge the dominance of Mifare in contactless transit ticketing, released a second version of its “mobile guidelines” Thursday, which it said would help transit authorities and transit operators to introduce mobile ticketing on NFC phones.
The guidelines follow the long-overdue release in late March by vendors in the Mifare4Mobile industry group of the 2.0 version of their specifications to enable Mifare cards on NFC phones.
There are other challenges standing in the way of rollouts of mobile NFC transit ticketing–especially problems trying to convince transit authorities and operators of the business case for mobile NFC. But the vendor groups hope their new specifications and guidelines will provide a boost to prospects for eventual commercial launches.