Orange plans to provide three million SIM-based NFC devices to customers based in the European Union in 2012, according to Stéphane Richard, chairman and CEO of France Telecom-Orange... More
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Orange hits 500k NFC phones
500,000 Orange customers in France and the UK are now equipped with NFC phones, the mobile network operator has told NFC World... More
UK NFC JV files with Brussels
The NFC joint venture between three UK mobile network operators has now filed for approval with the EU to go ahead with the scheme, code named ‘Project Oscar’, the Guardian reports, despite on-going objections from excluded carrier Three... More
Orange to launch first Intel NFC phone
Mobile network operator Orange has announced it will be the first operator in Europe to offer subscribers an Intel-powered smartphone... More
HTC to unveil at least one NFC phone at MWC
The internet rumour mill has been running overtime with a series of leaked details of new HTC phones to be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress... More
Santander unveils first NFC wallet to offer both Visa and MasterCard payments
The banking giant, the eighth largest in the world, has partnered with Orange for the development and introduction of the first NFC payments solution to support cards issued by both Visa and MasterCard. More
Belgian NFC payments joint venture hits the rocks
Plans to create a common mobile payments platform for Belgium’s banks and mobile network operators have been abandoned over an inability to agree on whose technology to use or a business case that could work for all parties. More
Orange UK announces Quick Tap treats for 200,000 NFC customers
Two hundred thousand UK customers have now been equipped with NFC phones they will be able to use to tap smart posters and receive special rewards, says the mobile network operator. More
EMT begins NFC bus ticketing trial in Malaga
Public transportation operator EMT has begun an NFC ticketing pilot in the city of Malaga, the fifth largest in Spain, in conjunction with mobile network operator Orange... More
Orange illustrates NFC
Orange Business Services has produced an infographic that shows consumers six ways NFC will change our world... More
Tizen preview unveiled
The Linux Foundation has published a Tizen SDK preview to give application developers a pre-release look at the new mobile operating system... More
SITA demonstrates NFC for airport check-ins
“A passenger using an NFC-enabled device can be processed faster than any of the current boarding processes available today”, says the air transportation technology giant. 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
UK gets Acer Liquid Express
Acer’s Liquid Express, the company’s first NFC-equipped device, is now available in the UK from Orange and T-Mobile... 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
Three takes fight against UK NFC joint venture to Europe
The planned joint venture between the UK’s three leading mobile network operators is “anti-competitive and akin to a joint selling arrangement,” says Three UK, which was not invited to take part in establishing the new NFC service provider. More
45 mobile operators commit to NFC
The mobile network operators have signed up to support and implement SIM-based NFC in a move the GSMA says will “promote the global interoperability of services and accelerate time-to-market”. More
Acer to include NFC in all its Android phones
The company’s new Liquid Express NFC smartphone supports both tag reading and mobile payments — and, the company says, NFC will now be included in all its future Android phones. More
Galaxy S II Cityzi lands in France
The NFC version of Samsung’s flagship smartphone is now shipping in France... More
Mobile payments arrive on BlackBerry phones
Carriers and banks around the world can now use the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and the BlackBerry Curve 9360 smartphones to deliver MasterCard-approved NFC mobile payments services. More