OSPT Alliance Issues Guidelines For Mobile Ticketing

The Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT) alliance has issued new guidelines for transport operators who are interested in using NFC for mobile ticketing applications, reports NFC World. Operators who wish to introduce a Cipurse v2 open security standard in an NFC device to facilitate mobile ticketing will use these guidelines for reference and guidelines.

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    Jorg Suchy, OSPT chairman of mobile activities, said to NFC World, “We have developed a set of guidelines already based on Cipurse v2 which we released last October. We have now taken that specification which was mainly for cards and moved it to NFC enabled devices including smartphones and tablets.” These guidelines have been created to support the growing number of contactless ticketing and help move the existing customer base into future NFC transactions.

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