Orange France to stock 20 NFC phones by year end

Thierry Millet
MILLET: VP of Mobile Payments and NFC at Orange France

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.

The mobile network operator is also on target to achieve its goal of selling three million NFC handsets in Europe this year, he added, and expects to hit ten million NFC phones by the end of 2013.

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