Washington Metro (WMATA) is preparing to pilot NFC payments, allowing passengers to pay for their journey with an NFC smartphone or a contactless bank or ID card... More
Washington Metro to test NFC payments in 2015
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Pay and display goes NFC
Parking and transportation ticketing equipment supplier IEM is to bring NFC payments to an initial 1,000 solar powered ‘pay and display’ parking ticket machines in France, using UIC’s UIC680 low power payments module... More
McDonald’s to offer NFC and QR payments across Belgium
McDonald’s is to roll out NFC payments across all of its locations in Belgium in the spring of 2014 using Seamless’ Seqr mobile payments platform... More
UK gov funds NFC ticketing
The UK Government’s Technology Strategy Board is providing a £1.1m grant to a consortium led by Tedipay that is developing MultiPass, a smart ticketing service designed to offer a single, nationwide travel pass that will always charge travellers the lowest possible fare... More
IATA and NFC Forum publish NFC air travel reference guide
A guide setting out the potential use cases for NFC in the air travel sector has been published by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and The NFC Forum... More
Octopus pilots Sony FeliCa NFC payments in Hong Kong
Hong Kong contactless transportation ticketing and stored value payments provider Octopus is conducting a mobile payments pilot in conjunction with mobile network operator PCCW-HKT, using Octopus Mobile SIMs — NFC-enabled SIM cards compatible with Sony FeliCa contactless card technology... More
MTS launches NFC payments in Belarus
Mobile network operator MTS has launched an NFC mobile payment service in Belarus in partnership with Belgazprombank, enabling subscribers to make payments across the country at merchants equipped to accept MasterCard PayPass contactless payments... More
Snapper adds parking to NFC transit card service
Wellington City Council in New Zealand is trialling the use of Snapper transit cards, which are also available on NFC phones, to pay for car parking... More
German transport operators pick NFC Netstore’s durable outdoor tags
Finnish tag supplier NFC Netstore is to provide its Contact Point durable NFC tags to Deutsche Bahn for the rail operator’s Touch&Travel national NFC ticketing scheme. Regional transportation operator RMV has already installed 25,000 of the new tags across the Frankfurt region. More
New York City to pilot NFC parking meters
The New York City Department of Transportation is to pilot test PayByPhone‘s mobile payments system, which is already live in San Francisco, Miami, London and Vancouver, in an 18 block area of the Belmont Business Improvement District in the Bronx... More
NFC parking meter gets update
MacKay Meters has received EMV Level 1 Contactless Certification for the latest version of its Guardian Solo parking meter... More
Metz gets NFC parking
Drivers in Metz, France can now register online to get an NFC sticker that allows them to pay for their stay at a 2,100 place underground car park without a ticket or cash... More
Towns pick NFC to drive shoppers back to British high streets
“A town and city centre is only vibrant and thriving if people find a reason to go there”, Guy Douglas of ATCM says. “NFC is a way of delivering an enhanced town centre offer, which can only be a good thing especially when the high street is hugely challenged by ecommerce.” More
Alaska Airlines prepares for NFC
Alaska Airlines is to install 320 BGR135 boarding gate readers, supplied by Access IS, which can be easily upgraded to support NFC... More
Gartner predicts 448m mobile payments users in 2016
Global mobile payment transaction values are set to grow by 42% a year, say the analysts, but the market will be fragmented over the next two years and NFC payments won’t hit the mass market until 2015. More
Stagecoach partners with Everything Everywhere for NFC bus ticketing pilot
The trial is set to lead to “a wider nationwide transport roll out” to buses and trains in 2013, says the leading UK-based public transport operator which carries 2.5m Brits every day. More
Toulouse-Blagnac Airport to test NFC check-ins
“With NFC technology, the mobile phone simplifies the passage of the flyer through the airport,” says the CEO of the first airport in the world to pilot the use of NFC phones to improve the airline passenger experience. More
Oakland gets NFC parking
Drivers in Oakland, California can now pay for their parking by tapping their NFC phone on any of the city’s on-street parking meters... More
UK gets NFC parking service
The British town of Tunbridge Wells has become the first in the UK to allow drivers to pay for their parking with an NFC mobile phone... More
NXP to showcase NFC at MWC
NXP is to showcase NFC applications from six partners at its booth at the Mobile World Congress next week:... More