NEWS
Wirecard digitises intermodal transport
with Qixxit
W
irecard, a global innovation leader
for digital financial technology, is
driving the digitisation of the travel industry
and enabling digital payments for the
Qixxit mobility platform. Qixxit is part of
Deutsche Bahn Digital Ventures GmbH and
is an intermodal mobility portal. Within
seconds, Qixxit compares the three main
methods of transportation for trips – train,
long-distance bus and plane – in a search
query and combines the connections to
create a correlated journey chain. Thanks to
Wirecard, customers can use Apple Pay as a
new payment method for in-app payments.
By integrating Apple Pay, Wirecard offers
all Qixxit users more flexibility in digital
payments. Currently, around 500,000
people already use the Qixxit service on a
regular basis.
expected to grow by over 30% to a total
sales volume of almost €1 billion by 2023.
In this context, the online mobility services
segment currently holds the largest share
with more than €400 million worldwide.
“We have continuously developed our
travel app over the last few months and
geared it to the needs of our users and their
feedback. Travellers want a service that offers
everything in one place: smart connections,
transparent fares and tickets. Together with
our new partner, Wirecard, we are proud to
be one of the first eTravel providers to offer
Apple Pay as a digital payment method,”
said Stefan Kellner, CEO of Qixxit.
The organisation and booking of trips via
browser or app is becoming increasingly
popular. Worldwide, the eTravel market is
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Nokia and Open Fiber bridge the digital
divide in Italy
O
pen Fiber, the sole wholesale-only
player in the Italian broadband
market, selected Nokia for a fibre-to-the-
home (FTTH) rollout that will bring ultra-
broadband services to the small towns and
rural areas of Italy. The Open Fiber network
will bring optical fibre from a point of
presence to the customer’s home and deliver
speeds of up to 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps).
In line with the founding principles of the
Gigabit Society, the new fibre deployment
provides Open Fiber with a future-proof
network that can support next-generation
fibre technologies.
Nokia has been selected as the sole supplier
for clusters C and D (white areas) and will
deliver products, services and software
needed to plan, design, deploy and support
the end-to-end active network infrastructure
based on GPON technologies.
Nokia will also offer its professional
services and customer engineering
experience to fulfil solution validation
and integration, installation and
commissioning, on-site support, solution
training and project management.
While drawing up its ultra-broadband
strategy in 2015, the Italian government
identified four types of clusters – A, B, C and
D – in the country: where each municipality
was assigned to one cluster based on
factors including lower or higher housing
density, presence of broadband coverage
and market size.
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