ALCATEL-LUCENT : and CASSIS International Partnership Addresses Secured Mobile Application Warehouse Through Trusted Service Manager
12/03/2010| 06:15am US/Eastern
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PARIS, December 3, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
- Turnkey Mobile Wallet Solution Will Facilitate NFC Deployment
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced an
agreement to integrate CASSIS International's Trusted Service Manager (TSM)
with Alcatel-Lucent's comprehensive mobile payment and marketing offering.
This pre-integrated solution enables mobile network operators (MNOs) to
provide a secure mobile application warehouse for payment, ticketing, loyalty
and other applications by allowing consumers to use their mobile phones as a
wallet at the point of sale.
Mobile phones are being used as the new wallet everywhere, with mobile
wallet users reaching 1.4 billion by 2015, predicted by Edgar, Dunn and
company. A consumer launches a credit card application on the Near Field
Communications (NFC) phone and the phone will act as a credit card. The
consumer will also have the possibility of checking his balance and
transaction history in real time on the phone and will be able to subscribe
to new payment, transport or loyalty programs on the fly by installing a
secure application from the mobile super-store. In fact, Alcatel-Lucent's
survey revealed that 89 percent of the youth market would be willing to pay a
monthly fee for such a mobile wallet service.
The Alcatel-Lucent and CASSIS partnership provides a single point of
contact for the secure contactless application providers to access their
customer base through the MNOs. The CASSIS Trusted Service Manager
distributes, provisions and activates the applications and services of the
service providers, and is considered the middle man between MNOs and third
party service providers. This allows a mobile phone to act like a credit
card, transport card or loyalty card. MNOs can leverage the relationship and
services of the TSM to collaborate with other industry service providers and
rapidly create new services for their customers, independent of handset and
secure element makers, and thereby creating new revenue streams.
This joint solution highlights further progress with Alcatel-Lucent's
application enablement strategy, which combines the trusted capabilities of
service providers with the speed and innovation of the Web to enable a new
generation of services that provides both consumers and business users with
richer experiences. Mobile service providers can safely expose network assets
and access to handset secured elements, such as identity management, to third
parties such as banks, and other application and content providers to create
innovative secure mobile applications that utilize the mobile operator's
network and handset capabilities. This further drives availability of new
applications via the creation of a secured mobile application warehouse.
Alcatel-Lucent offers a complete solution to MNOs for proximity payments
and mobile financial services including a "stored value account" (wallet),
payment gateway to banks and credit cards, an e-money license, credit card
issuing and acquiring licenses and profile server. CASSIS' TSM services
provide a mobile application warehouse where consumers can download secure
applications to their NFC handset. CASSIS' world class expertise in TSM
offers over-the-air provisioning that remotely manages multiple secure mobile
applications such as debit or credit card payment applications on the secure
element, independent of its form factor, such as, Subscriber Identity Module
(SIM) cards, MicroSD cards, active stickers, and NFC phone with embedded
secure element.
"This partnership completes our turnkey mobile payment and marketing
offering for mobile operators and NFC consortia," said Anthony Belpaire,
General Manager Alcatel-Lucent Mobile Wallet Service. "The combination of
CASSIS' unique expertise on TSM with Alcatel-Lucent's Mobile Wallet Service
offering, worldwide presence and integration expertise creates a unique
market proposition. With this offering, we can enable our mobile carrier
customers to provide a kind of "SIM app store" so payment, ticketing and lots
of 3rd party applications can be provided to any NFC handset into the hands
of the carriers' customers."
"Consumers get their freedom of choice from the secure mobile application
mobile warehouse," said Thian Yee Chua, CEO of CASSIS International. "We
shared the vision of Alcatel-Lucent. Combining its leadership in the
telecommunication industry with our experience and track record in other
industries shortens the learning curve for mobile operators, while speeding
up their service deployment, and making NFC business profitable."
About CASSIS International
Founded in 2002, CASSIS International is a leading end-to-end security
solutions and trusted service provider of smart card innovation, technology
and services. The company combines multifunction smart card enablement
capabilities, its proven MobileMatrix NFC mobile payments platform and
end-to-end OTA trusted services management to enable service providers
worldwide to safely and conveniently deliver multiple applications to their
customers. CASSIS has unmatched experience implementing successful projects
around the world, including all of Visa's major NFC project launches in the
Asia Pacific region. CASSIS is a key member of Visa's International Mobile
Payment Platform Consortium for mobile payments and services. With
headquarters in Singapore and operations in Singapore, Malaysia, China, South
Korea and France, CASSIS serves a global client base of leading mobile
operators, financial institutions, transit operators, media companies and
handset manufacturers. For more information, visit the Cassis web site at
http://www.cassis-intl.com.
About Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is the trusted
transformation partner of service providers, enterprises, strategic
industries such as defense, energy, healthcare, transportation, and
governments worldwide, providing solutions to deliver voice, data and video
communication services to end-users. A leader in fixed, mobile and converged
broadband networking, IP and optics technologies, applications and services,
Alcatel-Lucent leverages the unrivalled technical and scientific expertise of
Bell Labs, one of the largest innovation powerhouses in the communications
industry. With operations in more than 130 countries and the most experienced
global services organization in the industry, Alcatel-Lucent is a local
partner with a global reach. Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 15.2
billion in 2009 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located
in Paris. For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on the Internet:
http://www.alcatel-lucent.com, read the latest posts on the Alcatel-Lucent's
blog http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/blog and follow us on Twitter:
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SOURCE Alcatel-Lucent
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