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Czech Republic: Visa and Czech Telco Announce M-Payments Project with Galaxy S III

Scope: 
Rollout
Czech Republic
50.0755
14.4378
Launch: 
Aug 2012
Main Application: 
Payment
Mobile Operator: 
Telefónica Czech Republic
Service Provider (application): 
Komerční bank (Visa payWave)
Merchants: 
About 6,000 payWave POS terminals in Czech Republic, thousands more outside of the country
Users: 
2,000
NFC Handsets: 
Samsung Galaxy S III
TSM*: 
N/A
Secure Element: 
SIM
Other Vendors: 
Visa Europe (Visa payWave application), Oberthur Technologies (NFC SIM cards), NXP Semiconductors (NFC phone chip)

Telefónica Czech Republic is making the mobile-payments service available starting A

NFC Times Take: 

Telefónica Czech Republic plans to launch NFC services commercially in the second quarter of 2013, and the Galaxy S III project is the last step before that launch, said the telco. It has held at least two earlier NFC trials in the Czech Republic.

 

* 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.
 
 N/A: Not available or not applicable.
 
Last update: Aug. 2012

 

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