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Plans to create a common mobile payments platform for Belgium's banks and mobile network operators have been abandoned over an inability to agree on whose technology to use or a business case that could work for all parties. 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

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

"We need to own the market space and prevent market differentiation before any other party enters the market with enough money," says Peter Van Leeuwen of KPN, a partner in the Dutch NFC joint venture that includes both banks and mobile operators. 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

Belgium's mobile network operators have joined forces with the country's financial sector with the aim of introducing SMS and NFC based mobile payments by the end of 2011. "The goal is to make a mobile... 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

The mobile industry association has finalised its device requirements for NFC handsets and called on manufacturers to put phones incorporating the Single Wire Protocol interface into consumers' hands by the middle of next year. More