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Mobile Trade Group Calls for More NFC Standards
Mobile trade group the GSMA today announced that major mobile operators "have voiced their commitment" to launch NFC and called for more standards to ensure interoperability of NFC services.Related...
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Airline Industry Tech Provider Sees Major Role for NFC to Speed Check-in and...
By: Dan Balaban With the help of NFC technology, airline passengers will routinely tap their mobile phones to pass through security checkpoints and boarding gates by 2018, predicts major airline...
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Wentker Departs Visa; Bains Leaves GSM Association
By: Dan Balaban Dave Wentker, considered the No. 2 man in Visa Inc.’s mobile-payment unit and a former vice chairman of the NFC Forum, has left the payment network after more than 15 years, NFC Times...
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GSMA Names New NFC Point Man as It Seeks to Clear Way for Telco Rollouts
By: Dan Balaban The GSM Association has named its new point man for NFC, Pierre Combelles, vice president for open innovation at France Telecom-Orange group, the GSMA told NFC Times.Related stories:...
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The Year Ahead for NFC: Commercial Launches at Hand
By: Dan Balaban The 10-year anniversary of the official birth of NFC came and went quietly on Sept. 5, 2012.Related Content: The Year Ahead for NFC: Major M-Commerce Rollouts Unlikely Until 2013As...
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Secure Element Issue Weighs on Airline Industry Evaluation of NFC
Mar 8 2013 (All day) By: Dan Balaban The International Air Transport Association, which represents 240 airlines worldwide, plans to finish its evaluation of NFC technology this year and could propose...
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GSMA Proposes Global Standard for NFC-Enabled Loyalty and Couponing–Using SIM...
May 10 2013 (All day) By: Dan Balaban The GSMA mobile operator trade group is proposing a global standard for how point-of-sale terminals talk to NFC-enabled mobile wallets to enable consumers to...
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GSMA Chief: ‘Samsung Will Support Operators That Want to Launch SIM-Based NFC’
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive: Anne Bouverot, director general of the mobile operator trade group, the GSMA, talks with NFC Times about issues facing telcos for NFC and progress they are making...
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NFC SIM Shipments Hit 30 Million in H1–Matching Full-Year 2012, as Isis Gears...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive: SIM vendors shipped a little more than 31 million NFC SIM cards to mobile operators during the first half of 2013–equaling the number of NFC SIMs during all of...
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The Year Ahead for NFC: Telcos Finally Ready to Roll Out, But Alternatives to...
Jan 7 2014 (All day) By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive: As 2014 unfolds, the NFC ecosystem appears as unsettled as ever, with embedded secure chips expected to compete with NFC SIMs in several...
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Facing Threats, Telcos and Other Players Seek to Cut Cost and Complexity of NFC
By: Dan Balaban NFC ecosystem players are moving to simplify the costly and complex process for putting payment applications on secure elements, as they face mounting frustration at the pace of...
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Four Asian Telcos Seek to Enable Cross-Border Roaming of NFC Services
By: Dan Balaban BARCELONA, Spain – It’s an oft-repeated goal by NFC backers–to enable customers to use a variety of NFC services when they roam in different countries by downloading the local...
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NFC SIM Volumes Projected to Show Moderate Growth in 2014, Though Impact of...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive: Mobile network operators will take delivery of at least two-thirds more NFC SIMs this year than in 2013, predicts operator trade association, the GSMA, though the...
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SIM Vendor Group Contends NFC SIM Growth Healthy; Refuses to Call HCE a Threat
Apr 24 2014 (All day) By: Dan Balaban The SIMalliance vendor group said its members shipped 78 million NFC SIMs last year, with Japan and South Korea again the top destination for the high-end...
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With HCE Threat Looming, Telcos and Their Trade Group Seek to Cut Cost and...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive: With interest in host-card emulation continuing to grow and SIM-based NFC rollouts in need of a boost, mobile operators and their global trade association, GSMA,...
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NFC Forum Adds Long-Awaited Analog Testing to Its Device Certification Program
By: Kiona Smith-Strickland and Dan Balaban The NFC Forum has added the final major component to its device certification with the addition of analog testing, but the impact of the development on...
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Orange NFC Chief: We Want to Talk to Apple about Putting Orange Cash on iPhone
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive: The head of mobile payments for France-based mobile operator Orange Group said he wants to talk to Apple about enabling the telco’s co-branded payment...
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Year Ahead for NFC: Tokenization, Apple Pay Expansion, HCE Among Trends to Watch
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive– 2015 will mark the first full year of Apple Pay and expansion of the payment service internationally, along with the coming of payment wearables led by Apple...
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GSMA, Telcos Consider Common Platform to Support Tokenization on SIMs
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive – Mobile operators are considering shopping for technology to launch a common platform to request tokenized payment cards from such providers as MasterCard...
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The Year Ahead for NFC: Telcos Finally Ready to Roll Out, But Alternatives to...
Jan 7 2014 By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive: As 2014 unfolds, the NFC ecosystem appears as unsettled as ever, with embedded secure chips expected to compete with NFC SIMs in several markets to...
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