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Calypso World News

[Montreal]
ACS and Oberthur Technologies provided more than 1.2 millions of Calypso contactless smart cards for a new e-ticketing project in Canada

[Israel]
OTI was awarded the Israeli Department of Transportation Tender to supply Calypso Cards for public transportation in Israel

[USA]
ASK and WS Packaging Group are pleased to announce that they have entered into an agreement for creation of a Joint Venture based in the United States

[Riga]
Transport operator Rigas Satiksme, runs 460 buses, 322 trolleybuses, and 252 tram cars for a population of around 700,000 inhabitants and chose Calypso to implement its new ticketing system

[Algeria]
Algiers Tramway: new ticketing system will be ready by the end of 2009

News

[Market]
Roll-out of the National program of electronic driving and vehicle registration licenses in Morocco: 500,000 electronic contactless cards have been issued, including 210,000 vehicule registration cards and 275,000 driving license cards

[Market]
NFC Forum gets new board member, adds more associates

[Events]
The Transportation Security Forum, organized by Wise Media, is a global symposium focusing on how to increase security while facilitating the circulation of people and goods. The event is endorsed by the European Commission and takes place in Paris at the Hyatt Regency Charles de Gaulle on May 28-29

[Market]
Barclaycard Issues One Millionth Contactless Bank Card

[Industry]
Sagem Orca introduces NFC Single Wire Protocol enabled SIM card

Calypso Key Figures

21 countries, more than 80 cities

More than 30 million contactless cards

300,000 terminals in service

Opinion

A USB key including Calypso has been presented to the National Forum of new tourism as a promising solution for future tourism pass

Forum

Are bank cards with transport application an economic alternative to eTicketing systems?

This is the first issue of the CNA Letter. This letter is one of the visible signs of the strategy of communication of CNA, part of the global strategy for the next three years as defined by Philippe Vappereau in the interview hereafter. This letter will give quarterly a global vision of the worldwide development of Calypso, through different sights: actors of the market's testimonies, selection of significant news and events, evolution of key figures, technical and technological upgrades. It must be also the entry point to CNA forum for exchanges about subjects which justify constructive debate, like the relationship between banks and transport. You may help us to improve this letter in the reader's session by adding comments and proposals of articles. Please do not hesitate to forward this letter to your colleagues.

The CNA letter team wishes you a very good year 2009.

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Philippe Vappereau new CNA’s Chairman answers our questions about the strategy of the association for the next three years. This strategy concerns In particular the communication and promotion of Calypso but also the development of services to be provided by CNA to all the members, partners and customers in order to favor the development of Calypso in the market.

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Calypso Values 

Version 3 of Calypso is compatible with ISO 14443 A-B standards and javacard mechanisms and includes triple DES security, which will contribute to enhance the business model of ticketing systems thanks to the simultaneous perspective of reduction of costs and accession of new services.

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Technical Update

"Calypso specification - Application Downloading V0.9.3" result of the work packages 3.1 "Generic application download" and 3.2 "Rev. 3 generic application specification" has been considerated as validated.

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Events

Tranport Ticketing London: January 27-28

ATEC/ITS in Versailles: February 4-5

Transportation Security Forum-Paris: May 28-29

Club Conference in Riga: June (to be confirmed)

UITP Vienna 2009: June 8-10

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Members

ASK, Net-Boss, Smart Packaging Solutions, Stib, Landratsamt Konstantz, Otlis, RATP, Galitt, Ask, Gemalto, Systra, Erg, Vela, Link Consulting, Mta, Eurolum, Trnsdev, Spirtech, .Parkeon, St Microelectronics, Urtp, Watchdata System, Sagem Sécurité, Sncf, Ecebs, Cubic, Ministry of Transport of Israel, Octal Engenharia de Sistemas, Wayfarer Transit Systems, Oberthur Technologies…

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