Netherlands
News about the NFC market in Netherlands — trials, pilots, tests and live services.

Startupbootcamp launches accelerator program for NFC startups
April 17th, 2013
Ten startups with great NFC and contactless ideas will be able to access a three month program of assistance and guidance, €15,000 in seed funding, free office space, a sponsor package and the chance to pitch their final product to investors. More

NFC tags beat QR codes in Dutch retail pilot
April 10th, 2013
"We have found that the NFC tags are more popular than the QR codes because they are very simple to use," upmarket fashion retailer Vic has told NFC World. "It is definitely something we hope to keep in our store going forward into the future; it is our way of connecting our online and offline worlds." More

Film festival says it’s showtime with NFC posters
March 25th, 2013
The Go Short film festival, held in the Dutch city of Nijmegen from 13 to 17 March, used NFC tags to provide movie-goers with information on upcoming screenings and locations. Netherlands-based startup Tag N Tap... More

MasterCard unveils MasterPass digital wallet and mobile payments platform
February 25th, 2013
MasterPass covers in-store and online payments, supports both NFC and QR codes and enables "banks, merchants and partners" to offer their own wallets to consumers. More

Dutch banks to run NFC payments pilot
February 20th, 2013
ABN Amro, ING and Rabobank have teamed up with mobile network operator KPN to run an NFC pilot in the city of Leiden this summer "with a large group of consumers." More

Samsung tests NFC window shopping in Amsterdam
January 23rd, 2013
The phone maker has teamed up with Dutch ecommerce merchant JeansOnline to make exclusive offers to Samsung phone owners who tap a TecTiles tag or scan a QR code at a pop-up store in the city centre. More
Dutch prefer app payments
November 27th, 2012
55% of Dutch consumers would prefer to make mobile payments through an app rather than NFC, according to a poll of 15-65 year olds conducted by Telecompaper. Respondents said convenience and trust are paramount when... More

MasterCard and ING test NFC for online payments
November 7th, 2012
The new NFC solution is designed to offer the same user experience — and the same level of security — whether a shopper is presenting a merchant with a physical card or making a remote ecommerce or mcommerce transaction. More

Dutch banks and carriers abandon Sixpack NFC joint venture plan
July 19th, 2012
ABN Amro, ING, KPN, Rabobank and Vodafone are exploring a range of alternative ways to work together to introduce NFC services in the Netherlands, program director Wim Westerhof has told NFC World, in a bid to avoid the regulatory hurdles associated with forming a joint venture company. More

Vodafone to roll out mobile payments with Visa
February 27th, 2012
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

Dutch banks and carriers to launch NFC in 2013
November 30th, 2011
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

Dutch bank and supermarket test NFC payments
September 15th, 2011
Rabobank and Albert Heijn, the Netherlands' largest supermarket chain, are running an NFC payments pilot at a store in Amsterdam. More

50,000 Dutch nurses now using NFC phones
September 6th, 2011
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

Rabobank adds NFC stickers to MiniTix mobile wallet
March 28th, 2011
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... More

Deutsche Telekom details T-Mobile NFC rollout plans
February 21st, 2011
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

Dutch banks and mobile operators to launch national NFC service
September 9th, 2010
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
Rotterdam NFC payments service to cease operations in December
November 13th, 2009
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
Dutch think tank reports on the impact of NFC and consumer data privacy issues
October 28th, 2008
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
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