T-Mobilitat can soon be used to validate titles also with iPhone devices. It will be before the end of the year. At least, that is the intention that the Autoritat del Transport Metropolitana (ATM) has made public after a long time with the situation stuck. Since the new contactless card was launched, mobile support for title validation has only been available on Android devices with NFC technology, despite the fact that recharging and consulting the card can be done with a iPhone.
The problem is that the conception of T-Mobilitat is something that does not fit into the standards used until now by Apple. There are countless public transportation cards from around the world on these phones, but all of them are associated with a banking system, which in a way equates the transportation card with a debit or credit card. T-Mobilitat, on the other hand, is not linked to any banking entity. It is one of the issues that were changed with the rethinking of the project after the arrival of Ada Colau to the mayor’s office. And this scenario has made things very difficult for Barcelona and Paris, which has also found itself in a similar situation.
Conversations between ATM and Apple have been sporadic and distant over time. Although the technical managers of Som Mobilitat have tried to make the technology company understand these particularities, there was no way. The agreement reached between the European Union and Apple last January to open its store to third parties opened a loophole that has been taken advantage of.
Some allegations and the Olympic Games have opened the door to change
Initially, the document left public transport outside the opening obligations established by community legislation. The period of allegations was taken advantage of by the ATM, the only public transport entity that presented the documentation for the situation to be reviewed and a few days ago the EU responded by accepting the allegations and incorporating them into the definitive agreements with which Apple responds to the allegations. accusations of abuse of dominant position in the mobile payments sector using NFC.
It has also been influential that the Olympic Games were approaching to accelerate the situation in Paris and that this produced a change on the part of Apple, a very restrictive company that imposes multiple demands to guarantee that everything it offers through its operating system meets certain requirements. certain security and usability conditions.
The validation of the T-Mobiltat with iPhone will be possible before the end of the year
Making T-Mobilitat accessible to all those people who have an iPhone is no whim. In Catalonia, it is estimated that 22% of citizens have this type of telephone.
The application for iOS is currently in the development phase for validation and will be very similar to the one that already works with Android. As in this case, travelers must choose whether to load the card in physical format or in mobile phone format, since both systems are not connected.
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