NFC

Czech city to launch NFC mobile transit payment trial

February 23, 2009

The transit operator in Pilsen, Czech Republic, is teaming up with Telefonica O2 to launch a nine-month mobile payment trial.

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Challenges to a ‘cashless’ world

February 19, 2009

“Some believe it will be three to five years before money goes out of fashion and a truly cashless society emerges.  Experts in the Silicon Valley say many hurdles still need to be cleared to move the system into the mainstream. These include technology challenges as well as high up-front costs, security and enough of [...]

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Trial success for mobile tickets

January 28, 2009

“The Department for Transport [UK] has completed the first live ticketing trial using the government-mandated ITSO smartcard standard.  The six-month trial in the north-west of England involved two bus operators and 36 passengers using near-field communication (NFC)-enabled mobile phones to pay for bus tickets.   The first aim of the pilot was to demonstrate the viability [...]

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Cellphones as credit cards? Americans must wait

January 25, 2009

“Imagine a technology that lets you pay for products just by waving your cellphone over a reader. The technology exists, and, in fact, people in Japan have been using it for the last five years to pay for everything from train tickets to groceries to candy in vending machines. And in small-scale trials around the [...]

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Austria tests new NFC-based mobile ticketing service

January 21, 2009

Austrian railway operator ÖBB-Personenverkehr will test a new NFC chip-based ticketing service from mobilkom austria. Tickets can be validated with a simple touch of the passengers’ and the conductor’s NFC enabled mobile phone. Therefore, it is no longer necessary to enter a SMS code to validate the transaction, considerably enhancing time efficiency. Link to full [...]

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London Underground signals move to NFC

January 21, 2009

“Transport for London’s new ticketing contract will drive the switch to next generation ticketing, London Underground’s managing director has confirmed. The ability to switch to NFC and other next generation transaction technologies was a key factor in the renegotiation of Transport for London’s Oyster ticketing contract, it has become clear this week.” Link to full [...]

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Mobile and transit operators launch NFC payments system in Chongqing

January 21, 2009

“China Unicom and Yucheng Transportation Card Co have jointly introduced an NFC version of Chongqing city’s Yucheng Tong card that can be used to make payments on public transport, in cinemas and at shops and restaurants.” Link to full story in Near Field Communications World.

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Bell ID brings NFC to the masses

December 11, 2008

“Smart card management company Bell ID, The Netherlands, has launched a mobile pilot program that can help companies migrate to NFC…The solution can be of particular interest to banks, mobile network operators, transport operators, merchants and organizations interested in loading applications to NFC enabled phones.” Read the full story in NFCNews.

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NFC mobile payment trial to be launched in Guatemala

November 6, 2008

“ViVOtech says its NFC provisioning software for mobile payments is being used in the first NFC mobile payment trial in Latin America. The Visa-led Guatemalan deployment marks Latin America’s first NFC-based mobile payment pilot and use of payWave-enabled mobile handsets at hundreds of merchants that have installed the ViVOpay 5000 contactless payment readers.”  Link to [...]

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Future NFC uses showcased in MIT project

November 1, 2008

“The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Mobile Experience Lab, along with Nokia’s NFC Business Development department, have produced a video and white paper featuring some future applications of near field communication around campus.”   Link to full story  in CR08News.

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