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France
Société Générale picks NFC payments TSM
The French bank has chosen Oberthur to act as its trusted service manager for a rollout of NFC payments services this year. More
Firm finds NFC users interact more than QR code users
Only 1% of interactions with the French NFC specialist’s AdTag platform are conducted via an NFC phone, but NFC users account for 8% of all interactions, the company has found. More
Paris commuters to get travel passes that work with NFC phones
The latest generation of Passe Navigo, the travel pass used by six million commuters in the greater Paris region, will allow users to top up their cards from their NFC mobile phones and pave the way for the use of NFC phones as transportation tickets. More
Nice retailers use NFC to attract shoppers
The new Carte Magique has been introduced by independent retailer trade body OCAN to help its members fight back against online discounters. More
BNP rolls out NFC in Strasbourg
French banking group BNP Paribas is expanding availability of its Kix NFC mobile payment application to Strasbourg... More
Seventeen cities shortlisted for €20m French government NFC grant
The funding will be used to build out an NFC transport ticketing infrastructure in Paris and other major French cities as national NFC standards are finalised and carriers prepare to rollout NFC payments services across France this year. More
Paris gets interactive NFC mailboxes
French postal service La Poste has added NFC stickers to mailboxes in the central Hotel de Ville area of Paris, allowing passersby to receive information on local services and providing La Poste with the potential to generate new advertising revenues. More
French bank and carrier team up to bring mobile payments to market
The new BNP Paribas Mobile service combines a mobile network subscription, a range of innovative mobile banking products plus a choice of phones — including three with NFC — and is being promoted to customers via the bank’s network of branches across France. More
Toulouse tests NFC car tech
Regional government workers in France are taking part in a pilot test of NFC car key technology... More
NFC news in brief • 12 Sept 2011
News in brief from the NFC world and beyond: Austrian bus stops offer NFC updates • Caen gets NFC transit stops too • NFC tag store opens in Korea • Belgian museum offers NFC info • Gentag picks up patch patent • plus Clear2Pay, ITSO, TfL, FirstGroup, Google and more… More
French retailer tests NFC as aid for visually impaired shoppers
The Casino supermarket chain is testing the use of NFC tags as a way for visually impaired and physically disabled customers to obtain product details including pricing and ingredient lists. More
BNP Paribas and Orange to launch next-generation mobile bank
“Customers will be able to access the most innovative m-banking and m-payment services to manage their accounts and make payments using their mobile phones,” say the French banking group and mobile network operator. More
BPCE and Visa to test NFC microSD in Nice and Strasbourg
BPCE, France’s second largest banking group and owner of both Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne, is teaming up with Visa to conduct a pilot test of NFC MicroSD cards in the cities of Nice and Strasbourg this autumn... More
Orange to introduce first international NFC payments service
From this summer, subscribers to the UK’s Quick Tap NFC service will be able to use their phones to make payments in Nice, home of the French Cityzi NFC service. More
France set for commercial NFC services to begin in spring 2012
Technical specifications have been finalised, the French government is providing €20m to promote the adoption of NFC services and four mobile network operators and four banks have announced they will deploy NFC services nationally in the spring of 2012. More
Think&Go introduces NFC shopping engine
The new system combines NFC tags placed on product labels and shelf-edges with a ‘preference engine’ stored on a consumer’s mobile phone so that, for instance, shoppers can be alerted if a food product contains an ingredient they are allergic to or does not meet their pre-set shopping preferences. More
NFC news in brief • 18 April 2011
News in brief from the NFC world and beyond: NFC football shirts • EMVCo’s new specs • Contactless business cards • Expo visitors win with NFC • One in five smartphones to have NFC by 2014 • Smartphone users ‘uninterested in location-based services’ • Visa’s Australian NFC trial ends • and more… More
Bordeaux begins NFC city services trial
A new public trial of NFC-enabled mobile phones, contactless cards and contactless USB keys has been launched in the French city of Bordeaux... More
GSMA video shows NFC in action in Nice
Mobile network operators’ association the GSMA has produced a video showing near field communication phones in action in the French city of Nice, where mobile operators have been conducting an NFC trial under the Cityzi brand name... More