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Calypso Si!

CTS (Centro de Transporte Sustentable), a well-known non profit Organization promoting ecological transportation and CNA are organizing a congress in Mexico to present Calypso standard at a crucial time for this country where there are many pending transport projects.

This initiative is one of the different way to promote Calypso all around the world as presented by Ralph Gambetta in our interview. It explains certainly the good results in 2009 for Calypso with more than 18 million microprocessor cards issued, to be compared with about 10 million of 2008.

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Interview Ralph Gambetta, CNA responsible for Promotion

Since 2005, Ralph is in charge in Calypso Networks Association of the international promotion; he explains in the interview how he accomplishes his mission, what were the main success in 2009 and what are his expectative for 2010.

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Calypso Values The Calypso handbook soon available

The Calypso handbook will be the document of reference for the presentation of Calypso including definition and history, technical specifications and security features, advantages versus other solutions, business model, CNA list of members, references and key figures. It will be available on the website after registration; before the end of the month.

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Technical Update 

An amendment list to the Calypso rev 3.1 will be published on the technical web site at the end of March. This document brings further information on some points likely to be misunderstood and details some command examples.

Events

  • Electronica Transport 2010, Russia, 5-7 April 2010
  • Second CNA and industry meeting, Paris, 8 April 2010
  • Calypso Congress, Mexico, 26-27 April 2010
  • Cardspot, Hungary, 25-26 May 2010

Calypso World News

[Mexico]
CTS and Calypso Networks Association are organizing a Congress in Mexico.

[Belgium]
STIB, the public transport operator in Brussels, is leading the new-created company Belgian Mobility Card which is in charge to coordinate the national efforts for a unique transport ticket.

[France]
Within the "Nice Ville NFC mobile" project, Veolia Transport will launch the BPass solution which transforms a NFC mobile into a support for transport tickets.

News

[Technology]
Amendment C to Global Platform Card Specification addresses how end-users can manage contactless services on a secure element.

[Technology]
IMS Research forecasts that the number of contactless smart cards shipping per annum is projected to break the 1 billion mark in 2014.

[Technology]
The key to NFC deployment: Sagem Orga and Telenor develop a new bridge between the NFC infrastructure and the SIM card in a mobile phone

[Industry]
Gemalto Boosts Rollout of SIM-Based Mobile Contactless Services

[Industry]
RATP has created IXXI a subsidiary specialised in the Network Management, including travellers information and electronic ticketing.

[Industry]
Spirtech announces the creation of SpirtechConsulting to assist transport operators and transport authorities in deploying teleticketing systems.

Calypso Key Figures

21 countries, more than 80 cities More than 260,000 terminals
More than 52 million microprocessor contactless cards issued from the beginning
(2008: around 10 million; 2009: 18 million)

Opinion

People are becoming more keen to adopt contactless technology, with some 21.7 per cent of US consumers now holding a contactless debit card, according to a new report.

Forum

Will the availability of Javacard devices favor the development of eticketing?

Contacts

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