Everything Everywhere

Amid on-going delays for the UK mobile network operators' Project Oscar NFC joint venture, O2 has moved ahead with the launch of a mobile wallet that offers a suite of payments and marketing services to any mobile phone user, regardless of the carrier they get their mobile service from — with NFC to arrive later. More

The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation into the planned NFC joint venture between Everything Everywhere, Telefónica and Vodafone UK which will delay launch until after the London Olympics and casts doubts over the timetable for the introduction of similar projects in a number of other European countries. More

The NFC joint venture between three UK mobile network operators has now filed for approval with the EU to go ahead with the scheme, code named 'Project Oscar', the Guardian reports, despite on-going objections from... More

Everything Everywhere, Vodafone and O2 will be submitting their plans for a UK-based NFC joint venture to regulators in Brussels next week, the Financial Times reports. Mobile network operator Three, which was not invited to join the... More

The UK NFC joint venture announced last year by mobile network operators Vodafone, O2 and Everything Everywhere is expected to seek the official go ahead for the scheme, dubbed Project Oscar, in the next two... More

The planned joint venture between the UK's three leading mobile network operators is "anti-competitive and akin to a joint selling arrangement," says Three UK, which was not invited to take part in establishing the new NFC service provider. More

The mobile network operators have signed up to support and implement SIM-based NFC in a move the GSMA says will "promote the global interoperability of services and accelerate time-to-market". More

"Competition authorities in Brussels should not allow this type [of] collaboration to go forward under any circumstances," says Three, which was not invited to be part of the UK project. "We're asking the Commission to take a clear view of what is at stake for consumers and the dangerous precedent this move could set across Europe." More

Nokia's C7 and N9 NFC phones are not equipped to support either an embedded secure element or an NFC SIM, the handset maker has told NFC World, so it won't be possible to use them for mobile payments or other secure NFC services.  More

Everything Everywhere, which runs the Orange and T-Mobile networks in the UK, Vodafone and Telefónica O2 have agreed to establish a joint venture company that "will deliver the technology required for the speedy adoption of mobile wallet and payments." More

London is to be the first city in the world to convert its entire public transport network to accepting contactless payment cards, Transport for London has announced. "By the end of 2012 card readers across the... More

More than half of UK consumers are distinctly uncomfortable with the idea of contactless payments made through their mobile device, according to new research. A survey by Vision Critical found that 51% report being fairly... More

British consumers will be able to use NFC phones to make payments at stores across the country from the second quarter of this year, Barclaycard and Everything Everywhere have announced. More