Organizers have a goal of expanding the trial to 3,000 users, but are having problems getting phones that support the ticketing application on the SIM card using the single-wire protocol standard. They had hoped to use the SWP-enabled Nokia 6216. But the phone, promised by Nokia in Q3 of 2009, is late to market. Deutsche Bahn also intends to expand to other cities and routes in Germany. In general, the lack of gates at either national or local train or metro stations in Germany is suited for the system of tags and automatic downloads of tickets. Frankfurt-regional transit authority RMV is using a similar system, but unlike RMV’s “HandyTicket,” Deutsche Bahn’s “Touch&Travel,” stores its application and tickets on a secure chip in the SIM. This enables users to download higher-value tickets and for roving conductors to tap the phones of passengers with their own NFC handsets to check tickets.
* 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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