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| Subject: Seoul Chooses Vendor Group For Transit Card Overhaul (2003-09-19) | |
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Date Posted: Sunday, September 21, 07:43:09pm Seoul Chooses Vendor Group For Transit Card Overhaul The Seoul city government and local and regional transit operators have selected the vendor consortium that will roll out a new fare collection system starting next year, substantially restructuring the world’s first major chip-based transit card project. The planned $100 million "SS Card" project will not only allow commuters to pay fares in contactless mode on subway, buses and regional trains, but is likely to carry nontransit applications on the chip, including a credit program that complies with the international EMV standard. The consortium is headed by systems integrator LG CNS, part of Korean conglomerate LG Group. It includes three of South Korea’s largest credit card issuers and its three mobile network operators. The card companies, including Kookmin Credit Card Co., plan to issue cards that combine contactless fare payment with a contact credit application. That will allow commuters to continue to post-pay fares by charging them to their monthly credit card bills. The mobile operators plan to enable customers to pay fares with a wave of their handsets and will also offer post-payment through the card companies. The presence of the operators, Kookmin and the systems integrators that rolled out and maintain the existing fare collection systems for trains and buses were key reasons the city and transit operators chose the LG consortium, Chung Yong-sik, a team leader in the city’s information department, tells Card Technology. LG beat out a consortium led by Samsung SDS, part of the Samsung Group chaebol or conglomerate, which included smaller credit card issuers. This consortium planned to use a contactless card protocol known as type B, which Samsung’s semiconductor division produces. LG will follow the type A protocol, or standardized Mifare. While both protocols are part of the 14443 standard, many of the transit cards now in use in Seoul use a nonstandard form of Mifare. (2003-09-19) [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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| "SS Card" project (NT) | Fred Ferret. | Sunday, September 21, 07:44:24pm |