Deux groupes majeurs d’industriels ont ratifié l’utilisation de la technologie de puces sans contact NFC pour des terminaux mobiles en Europe et en France…

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Oberthur Technologies, one of the world’s leading smart card suppliers, in partnership with AIRTAG – an innovative start-up dedicated to NFC (Near Field Communication) applications - today announced the demonstration of the NFC Mobile Kiosk for fast food at the Mobile World Congress, which is the first fully integrated NFC multiplications service featuring marketing and payment services…

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Smart card provider Gemalto and chip manufacturer NXP will jointly develop NFC solutions in connection with SIM cards. The move aims at using the inherent SIM security for NFC applications. The activities will focus on applications that use the Single Wire Protocol (SWP) and the MIFARE contactless payment technology. Both partners plan to define and develop SIM products for SWP-based solutions.

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Here is an interesting article about the ongoing normalisation of the NFC ecosystem and confirming the 2 important news of the last month: NXP & Nokia are finally backing the SWP standard opening the way to the acceleration of the NFC Ecosystem.

The article also introduce a brief description of the NFC business models: renting space of the SIM card to bank, transit cies, retailers and service companies.

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NTT DoCoMo and South Korea’s KTF have just joined UK-based Vodafone, Orange of France, Telefónica Móviles of Spain, South Korea’s SK Telecom and China Mobile in the GSMA NFC workgroup.
The aim of the workgroup is to promote a secure environment for the NFC ecosystem based on the SIM card and managed by “trusted service manager” …
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Here is a very interesting interview (in French) of Jerome Sion - Head of contactless at Gemalto, explaining the NFC ecosystem form a SIM vendor standpoint:

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