Leading Mobile Operators Announce Commitment to NFC Technology

Many leading mobile phone operators worldwide, such as America Movil ,China Unicom,  Bharti, German Telecom, Axiata Berhad Group,Orange, KT Corporation, Qtel Group MTS, Telecom Italia, Softbank Mobile, Telefonica, Telekom Austria Group, Vodafone and Telenor have expressed their commitment to Near Field Communications Implementation Technology (NFC), and for commercial NFC services launched in selected markets, 2012.

"NFC is best known for his role in mobile payments known, but their applications go far beyond," said Franco Bernabe, CEO of the GSMA, Telecom Italia. "NFC is a significant opportunity for innovation and a wide range meaningful service and consumer applications, such as couponing mobile ticketing, mobile, exchange of information and content, access to cars, houses, hotels, offices and parking to facilitate much more. "

The market potential of NFC is significant - according to Frost & Sullivan, the value of total payment of NFC over € 110 000 000 000 in 2015 - and the momentum behind the technology is very fast. For the world the opportunity and useful new services for mobile users, the operator community focused on how the standardized use of mobile NFC with the SIM card as a security element to provide authentication, security and portability.

To do this, the GSMA to develop certification and standards necessary for interoperability testing NFC overall service guaranteed. This interoperability is critical to the widespread adoption of NFC technology, which allows users to take advantage of NFC services worldwide, regardless of network operator or aircraft type.

"As we have seen, adopting different approaches to the NFC only serve to fragment the market," said Bernabe. "By combining a single standardized approach to NFC and mobile through the collaboration of the entire ecosystem to develop our industry to continue the services attractive to customers demand."