Australia
News about the NFC market in Australia — trials, pilots, tests and live services.
Allphones Arena delivers NFC offers to fans
May 11th, 2012
Australian mobile phone retailer Allphones has installed NFC-enabled promotional pillars at Sydney's Allphones Arena, one of the largest stadiums in the country. "People can simply tap their phone to access exclusive offers from Allphones," Andrew... More
Australia gets online NFC store
February 26th, 2012
An online NFC store has opened in Australia. NFC Wireless supplies tags, readers and software, and can provide encoding, printing and NFC software development services. The store also offers a range of A$5 unbranded NFC... More
Kaching rings up 110k downloads
February 20th, 2012
Commonwealth Bank of Australia's CommBank Kaching NFC-enabled mobile payments app has been downloaded 110,761 times in the two months since it was first made available, the bank reports. "The first release of CommBank Kaching is... More
MasterCard delivers popcorn to movie-goers with NFC
February 1st, 2012
Two movie theatres in Sydney, Australia are pilot testing QkR, a mobile app that lets customers place orders on their smartphone via NFC or QR codes and then have their order delivered to their seat. More
Woolworths goes contactless
December 9th, 2011
Australian supermarket giant Woolworths is set to roll out 30,000 contactless payment terminals across more than 3,000 stores in 2012. The move follows a trial where the company saw a 50 to 75% decrease in... More
Coles to go contactless
December 6th, 2011
Australian grocery giant Coles is to upgrade its Ingenico point-of-sale terminals to support contactless payments, CNet Australia reports. Coles will begin testing readers in selected stores in February and complete the rollout to all its... More
RIM begins NFC marketing campaign
December 6th, 2011
The BlackBerry maker is to showcase the potential of the NFC functionality in its latest smartphones via smart posters and tokens distributed by street crews in Australia. More
Oz lottery players tap phones
November 21st, 2011
Australian NFC marketer Tapit is using the technology to promote a scratch card game for SA Lotteries. Players can enter to win A$5,000 by tapping an NFC tag or reading a QR code on smart... More
Lipton taps in to NFC ads
October 26th, 2011
Lipton Ice Tea has begun testing NFC at Sydney University, with ads featuring tags that students tap with their NFC-enabled phones to 'like' the Lipton Ice Tea Facebook page. NFC marketing specialist Tapit supplied the... More
Commonwealth Bank brings iPhone NFC to Australia
October 25th, 2011
The bank has unveiled 'Commbank Kaching', a next generation mobile payments service that lets iPhone users easily send money to their Facebook friends, email contacts and phone contacts as well as make payments in stores via an add-on NFC case. More
Australian supermarket Coles tests outdoor NFC with Adshel
September 29th, 2011
Fifty outdoor advertising sites in Melbourne have been equipped to allow consumers to download exclusive cookery recipes and video cookbooks via either WiFi or NFC. More
Tapit goes green
September 29th, 2011
NFC marketing specialist Tapit is to supply Australian recycling company Envirobank with NFC tags for use on its public-facing waste recycling stations. "Not only does NFC decrease the need for brochures and paper coupons but... More
JCDecaux Australia to add NFC to out-of-home advertising network
September 16th, 2011
The global out-of-home advertising leader has signed a two year agreement which will see Tapit equip 240 advertising panels with NFC tags to create Australiaʼs first NFC-enabled outdoor advertising network. More
NFC marketers form global alliance
September 8th, 2011
NFC specialists Blue Bite, Proxama and Tapit have formed an alliance that will see them working together to deliver global NFC-based marketing solutions. More
NFC to arrive in Australia “within three months”
July 18th, 2011
Commonwealth Bank of Australia plans to introduce a mass-market NFC service based on microSD technology "within three months", ZDNet Australia reports: A highly placed source within CommBank today told ZDNet Australia that the bank intends to... More
ANZ Bank: We like NFC, but not via microSD
June 30th, 2011
"At this stage, we will not be progressing with microSD as a contactless payment technology platform," says the Australian banking giant. More
Westpac to run internal NFC trial
May 18th, 2011
Westpac has become the latest of Australia's big four banks to trial contactless mobile phone payment technology. The bank intends to conduct an internal NFC trial later this month, iTnews reports. Employees will be supplied with... More
NFC news in brief • 18 April 2011
April 18th, 2011
News in brief from the NFC world and beyond: NFC football shirts • EMVCo's new specs • Contactless business cards • Expo visitors win with NFC • One in five smartphones to have NFC by 2014 • Smartphone users 'uninterested in location-based services' • Visa's Australian NFC trial ends • and more... More
ANZ and Visa begin NFC microSD trial in Australia
March 21st, 2011
Australian bank ANZ has begun a four-week trial of a mobile wallet service with Visa, which it believes will be the "way of the future" for making small payments. Fifty staff in the Sydney and Melbourne offices... More
Visa Australia ups contactless transaction limit to A$100 (US$87)
September 23rd, 2009
The rollout of contactless payments is gathering pace in Australia, with 500 merchants in Melbourne set to install contactless terminals this month. The transaction limit is being increased to A$100, with no PIN required —... More
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