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NFC SIM Shipments Reach 30 Million in H1–Matching FY 2012, as Isis Gears Up;...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive: SIM vendors shipped just over 31 million NFC SIM cards to mobile operators during the first half of 2013–equaling the number of NFC SIMs during all of 2012–and...
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Visa Cuts Deals with Telcos to Preload PayWave on NFC SIMs
By: Dan Balaban Visa has done deals with major mobile operators that would have the telcos preloading the Visa payWave application on their NFC SIMs, according to a representative of Visa...
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Orange Hits Half-Million Mark for NFC Handsets in France, Though Misses 2011...
By: Dan Balaban BARCELONA – France Telecom-Orange has sold 500,000 NFC phones in France to date and is putting new models on sale at an increasing rate, said Thierry Millet, head of payments and...
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Orange to Roll Out NFC SIMs as it Tries to Seed French Market
By: Dan Balaban French mobile operators have announced they will more than double the number of NFC-enabled phones rolled out to subscribers by the end of 2012, to 2.5 million, the most of any...
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China Mobile Announces NFC SIM and Mobile-Wallet Plans at Developers Conference
Dec 5 2012 (All day) By: Dan Balaban China Mobile today officially unveiled its plans for introducing NFC SIM cards and a mobile wallet, which it intends to launch early next year, to enable retail...
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Orange and China Mobile Sign Agreement to Promote SIM-Based NFC Standards
By: Dan Balaban France Telecom-Orange and China Mobile, the largest mobile operators in their respective home markets, have signed a memo of understanding to work together to speed the...
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Vendors Shipped 30 million NFC SIM Cards in 2012, Led by Demand in Korea and...
By: Kiona Smith-Strickland SIM manufacturers shipped 30 million NFC SIM cards in 2012, 70% of them to mobile operators in South Korea and Japan, with Europe beginning to ramp up, the SIMalliance...
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Visa Cuts Deals with Telcos to Preload payWave on NFC SIMs
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive: Visa has done deals with major mobile operators that would have the telcos preloading the Visa payWave application on their NFC SIMs, according to a...
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NFC SIM Shipments Hit 30 Million in H1–Matching Full-Year 2012, as Isis Gears...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive: SIM vendors shipped a little more than 31 million NFC SIM cards to mobile operators during the first half of 2013–equaling the number of NFC SIMs during all of...
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NFC SIM Volumes Projected to Show Moderate Growth in 2014, Though Impact of...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive: Mobile network operators will take delivery of at least two-thirds more NFC SIMs this year than in 2013, predicts operator trade association, the GSMA, though the...
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NFC SIM Volumes Projected to Show Moderate Growth in 2014, Though Impact of...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive: Mobile network operators will take delivery of at least two-thirds more NFC SIMs this year than in 2013, predicts operator trade association, the GSMA, though the...
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China Telecom Chooses NFC SIM Vendors for Large Planned Procurement
By: Dan Balaban China’s No. 3 mobile operator, China Telecom, has selected a list of six SIM vendors for its large planned rollout of NFC services.Related stories, automatically selected: Orange and...
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Gemalto: European Delays, HCE, Won’t Hurt NFC SIM Sales for 2014
By: Dan Balaban France-based Gemalto, the largest supplier of NFC SIMs globally, says it is not scaling back its projections for shipments of the cards this year, despite delays in orders by European...
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Gemalto Announces China Telecom NFC SIM Deal; Releases Few Details of Contract
By: Dan Balaban France-based Gemalto today announced that it is one of the suppliers for China Telecom’s “massive” rollout of NFC SIMs, though it did not offer any details on price or quantities of...
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NFC SIM Shipments Show Strong Gains in 2014, but Future Growth Remains in Doubt
Apr 23 2015 By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive Insight – The SIMalliance vendor group is playing up what it calls soaring growth in NFC SIM shipments in 2014, despite troubling signs for the future...
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Vendor Group Confirms 30% Growth in NFC Secure Elements in 2014; Revises 2015...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive Insight – Smart card vendor association Eurosmart has confirmed its estimate that vendors shipped 350 million NFC secure elements last year, up 30% from the year...
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GSMA, Telcos Consider Common Platform to Support Tokenization on SIMs
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive – Mobile operators are considering shopping for technology to launch a common platform to request tokenized payment cards from such providers as MasterCard...
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SIMalliance Reports NFC SIM Shipments were ‘Static’ in 2015 but Refuses to...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive Insight – It is perhaps a measure of just how big of a hit SIM suppliers took from the closing of the Softcard wallet in the U.S. early last year that their...
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NFC Secure Element Shipments to Miss Vendor Forecasts; Trade Group Eurosmart...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive – NFC secure element shipments for 2016 will be lower than earlier forecasts by card and chip vendor trade association Eurosmart, although the group is not saying...
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Analysis: Fall in NFC SIM Card Shipments Years in the Making
By: Dan Balaban and Istvan Fekete NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – SIM card vendor trade group the SIMalliance acknowledged for the first time that NFC SIM shipments are dropping and blamed...
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