Recent project updates
- Japan: No. 2 Telco in Japan to Sell First Standard NFC Phones, Tokyo, Chiba
- Turkey: Turkcell Continues Rollout of NFC Services with More Banks, Phones, Istanbul, other cities
- Germany: Bank Plans Employee Trial with iPhone and microSDs, Berlin and Frankfurt
- Australia: Bank Launches iPhone App Supporting Contactless and P2P Payments, Australia
- South Africa: Bank Uses microSDs for Mobile-Payment Trial, Johannesburg, Cape Town
- New Zealand: Vodafone and Bank Launch Employee Trial with Galaxy S II, Auckland, Wellington
- Spain: Telefónica Employee Trial to Test BlackBerrys for Payment and ID, Madrid
- France: Visa Europe to Launch Another microSD Trial in NFC Demo City, Caen
- Poland: Bank Trials iPhone Attachment with Visa payWave, Warsaw
- U.S.: Discover Financial to Trial iPhone Attachment with Employees, Chicago and Salt Lake City
HEADLINE NEWS
Project |
City | Service Provider | Mobile Operator | |
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| Australia: Bank Launches iPhone App Supporting Contactless and P2P Payments | Australia | Commonwealth Bank (MasterCard PayPass) | N/A | |
| Australia: Commonwealth Bank And MasterCard Tee Up First Aussie NFC Trial | Melbourne | Commonwealth Bank (MasterCard PayPass) | N/A | |
| Australia: Telstra and NAB Hold Pay-Buy Mobile Trial | Melbourne and Sydney | National Australia Bank (Visa payWave) | Telstra | |
| Australia: Visa and ANZ Bank Launch Small Internal Trial of microSD Cards | Melbourne and Sydney | ANZ bank (Visa payWave) | N/A | |
| Austria: Merchants Tap Phones To Activate and Redeem Gift Vouchers | Wels | City of Wels (Coupons/gift vouchers) | mobilkom Austria | |
| Austria: Students and Faculty Study NFC At Austrian University | Hagenberg | University Of Applied Sciences Of Upper Austria (payment, access-control, loyalty and P2P information exchange) | mobilkom | |
| Austria: Trial Puts Train Tickets On Embedded Chip | Vienna |
ÖBB Austrian national railway (VDV-KA transit ticket) |
mobilkom Austria | |
| Austria: ‘Rollout’ Uses NFC Reader Mode To Sell Tickets and Snacks | Vienna |
Austrian national railway (ticketing) Vienna transport authority (ticketing) Selectra (vending machine payment) |
mobilkom Austria | |
| Belgium: Belgacom Tests Contactless ‘PingPing’ Stickers for Meal Tickets | Brussels |
Belgacom (PingPing payment) Accord Services (meal vouchers) |
Belgacom | |
| Brazil: Claro and Two Banks Test PayWave | São Paulo, Brasília |
Banco Bradesco (Visa payWave) Banco do Brasil (Visa payWave) |
Claro | |
| Canada: Bell, Citi and MasterCard Join for Modest PayPass Test at the Office | Toronto | Citi (MasterCard PayPass) | Bell Mobility | |
| Canada: MasterCard and Bank Tests PayPass Sticker on BlackBerrys | Toronto, Waterloo | Bank of Montreal (MasterCard PayPass) | N/A | |
| Canada: Royal Bank of Canada and Rogers Wireless Test payWave | Toronto | Royal Bank of Canada (Visa payWave) | Rogers Wireless | |
| Canada: Telco Joint Venture Trials Contactless Stickers | Toronto and other cities | EnStream, Peoples Trust bank (MasterCard PayPass) |
Bell Canada Rogers Communications Telus |
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| China: Branch of China Mobile Likely To Shun RF-SIM for Project | Hangzhou | Hangzhou Citizen Card Co. and Hangzhou City 360° Card Co. (local Mifare-based transit payment application) | China Mobile (Hangzhou) | |
| China: Card Network UnionPay Holds Trial with Multiple Banks | Shanghai |
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Bank of China Bank of Communications Industrial Bank Shenzhen Development Bank (China UnionPay application) |
N/A | |
| China: Dual-Interface SIMs Enable Fare Payment in Chongqing | Chongqing | Chongqing Yucheng Transportation Card Co. (cqpass) | China Unicom (Chongqing) | |
| China: First NFC Trial In China Tests Transit Purse | Xiamen | E-Tong Card (Transit fare collection) | China Mobile | |
| China: Giant Chinese Telco Launches RF-SIMs For World Expo | Shanghai, Beijing, other |
China Mobile (ticketing, payment) Expo 2010 organizers (venue ticketing) |
China Mobile | |
| China: NFC Vs. RF-SIM: Unicom and Unicom Take on China Mobile | Shanghai |
Bank of China (UnionPay-PBOC 2.0 contactless) Bank of Communications (UnionPay-PBOC 2.0 contactless ) |
China Unicom (Shanghai) | |
| China: No. 3 Mobile Operator Rolls Out SIMs with Flexible Antennas | Nanjing and Jiangsu province |
Nanjing city (multiapplication) Nanjing Zhongshan Institute (student ID), Yangzhou Technology Institute (student ID) |
China Telecom | |
| China: Trial is First To Test OTA Applet Downloads | Shanghai | China UnionPay (loyalty) | ||
| China: Unicom Offers Beijing’s Transit-Payment Service on a SIM | Beijing | Beijing Municipal Administration and Communications Card Co. (BMAP card) | China Unicom (Beijing) | |
| China: Unicom Puts NFC Phone on Sale In Shanghai | Shanghai | Shanghai transportation authority (transit ticketing) | China Unicom | |
| Czech Republic: O2 to Launch Trial with Two Banks, Hypermarket | Prague and Pilsen |
Komerční banka (Visa payWave) Citibank Europe (Visa payWave) PMDP (transit ticketing) |
Telefónica O2 Czech Republic |
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