Air France to test NFC
Air France is to run an NFC pilot at airports in Paris and Toulouse from 2 July, enabling a selected group of customers to download their boarding pass to their NFC phone... More
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Nice bike rental stations get new NFC signs
Velo Bleu bike rental stations across the French city of Nice are sporting a new design for their NFC signs. More
Sistel shows NFC aid for Alzheimer’s
Wireless communications specialist Sistelnetworks has demonstrated how its vWand NFC stylus could be used to help sufferers of Alzheimer’s disease... More
Connecthings equips Nice bike rental stations with NFC tags
Contactless mobile services supplier Connecthings has added more than 200 NFC tags to Velo Bleu bike rental stations across the French city of Nice... More
Visa releases Olympics NFC and contactless usage statistics
“The response has been extremely positive and our priority now is on turning that enthusiasm into commercial mobile payment deployments across Europe,” says Visa’s Mary Carol Harris, adding that “we recognise that the journey is a marathon, not a sprint.” More
MasterCard adds Mobile PayPass User Interface SDK
“MasterCard is providing a programmer-friendly set of functions that make it easy for application developers to rapidly deliver payment apps to consumers – without having to become smart card programming experts,” says the payments network. More
Orange France to stock 20 NFC phones by year end
Close to 50% of the mobile phones stocked by Orange France will be equipped with NFC functionality by the end of 2012, Thierry Millet, the carrier’s VP of mobile payments and NFC, has told attendees at the NFC World Congress in Nice... More
BNP rolls out NFC in Strasbourg
French banking group BNP Paribas is expanding availability of its Kix NFC mobile payment application to Strasbourg... More
Seventeen cities shortlisted for €20m French government NFC grant
The funding will be used to build out an NFC transport ticketing infrastructure in Paris and other major French cities as national NFC standards are finalised and carriers prepare to rollout NFC payments services across France this year. More
French bank and carrier team up to bring mobile payments to market
The new BNP Paribas Mobile service combines a mobile network subscription, a range of innovative mobile banking products plus a choice of phones — including three with NFC — and is being promoted to customers via the bank’s network of branches across France. More
French carriers launch second NFC city
The Cityzi NFC mobile payments service will go live in the city of Strasbourg on 17 October. More
BNP Paribas and Orange to launch next-generation mobile bank
“Customers will be able to access the most innovative m-banking and m-payment services to manage their accounts and make payments using their mobile phones,” say the French banking group and mobile network operator. More
BPCE and Visa to test NFC microSD in Nice and Strasbourg
BPCE, France’s second largest banking group and owner of both Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne, is teaming up with Visa to conduct a pilot test of NFC MicroSD cards in the cities of Nice and Strasbourg this autumn... More
France set for commercial NFC services to begin in spring 2012
Technical specifications have been finalised, the French government is providing €20m to promote the adoption of NFC services and four mobile network operators and four banks have announced they will deploy NFC services nationally in the spring of 2012. More