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Low uptake of SIM-based mobile payments leads to decrease in NFC SIM shipments in 2016

By Rian Boden • • Updated • nfcw.com
SIMalliance

The global number of NFC SIM card shipments decreased in 2016 due in part to a “lower than anticipated” consumer uptake of SIM-based mobile payments and the impact of the closure of the Softcard mobile wallet in the US, the SIMalliance has revealed, despite reporting growth in NFC SIM shipments in key countries across Europe and the CIS regions, highlighting the demand in specific markets. More

New guidelines to ‘simplify’ Mobile Connect service

By Christopher Brown • • Updated • nfcw.com

Trade association SIMalliance has published a set of guidelines allowing mobile network operators and service and solution providers to more easily deploy Mobile Connect, which aims to provide a universal phone-based identity and authentication service to consumers worldwide... More

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SIMalliance: NFC SIM shipments up 69% in 2014

By Rian Boden • • Updated • nfcw.com
Global NFC SIM shipments by Simalliance members

A total of 4.7bn SIMs were shipped in 2014 by members of the SIMalliance, an organisation that represents suppliers responsible for 86% of the global SIM market, including 132m NFC SIMs, up 69% on 2013 and taking the total number of NFC SIMs shipped by alliance members over the past four years to 256m. More

SIMalliance publishes NFC paper

By Rian Boden • • nfcw.com

The SIMalliance has set out its recommendations for UICC configuration and feature requirements for NFC payments in a new paper called UICC Configuration for Mobile NFC Payments v1.0... More

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SIMalliance issues HCE security warning

By Sarah Clark • • Updated • nfcw.com
SIMalliance chairman Frederic Vasnier

“Host card emulation is good for the NFC ecosystem as a whole, but remains immature, unstandardised and, relative to secure element based deployments, vulnerable to malicious attack,” says SIM card manufacturer association SIMalliance, which has published an HCE discussion paper called Secure Element Deployment & Host Card Emulation... More