

With NFC implemented, a user’s mobile could become his or her personal payment and ticketing device, controlling access to and paying for transport on trains, buses or metro systems as well as authorising access to events such as concerts, festivals and major sporting occasions.

Mobile NFC ‘contactless’ applications could impact many different areas. NFC is a short-range wireless technology that enables a range of ‘contactless’ applications that could open up a major new mobile market. Mobile operators representing 40 per cent of the worldwide GSM market are working together to define a common global approach to enabling Near Field Communications (NFC) on mobile phones. * Operators Unite To Build New Mobile Market Original news source
