Netherlands

The telecoms giant, which has 400m customers in more than thirty countries, is working with Visa to introduce a global Vodafone Mobile Wallet. Subscribers in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Turkey and the UK will be the first to get the new service, beginning this financial year. More

Mobile network operators KPN and Vodafone have signed a cooperation agreement with bankers ABN Amro, ING and Rabobank — but T-Mobile has pulled out of the 'Sixpack' partnership and will follow its own route to market. More

Rabobank and Albert Heijn, the Netherlands' largest supermarket chain, are running an NFC payments pilot at a store in Amsterdam. More

The nurses use their NFC phones to track and manage home healthcare visits, in one of the world's longest established commercial NFC services. More

Secure identification specialist Multicard is to provide an NFC-based payment system to Rabobank, one of the Netherlands' largest financial services companies. Employees at Rabobank will be able to use the system to make contactless payments using their... More

NFC services will begin in Germany and Poland in 2011 and in the US, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic in 2012. In Germany, the operator looks set to offer its own payments service but in other countries it will partner with other operators or with banks, depending on market conditions. More

T-Mobile, Vodafone, KPN, ABN Amro, ING and Rabobank have signed a letter of intent to jointly introduce NFC across the Netherlands from 2012. More

Payter's NFC service in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, is to cease operations on 1 December because "there was insufficient scale to further develop existing services". More

When it comes to designing NFC ecosystems, solutions that appear to be logical and beneficial for the actors involved may not prove to be in the customers' best interests, says a new report by Dutch technology think tank Rathenau Institute More