NFC services in Telenor
From May until August 2011, around 250 of Telenor's and DnB NOR's customers tested paying via NFC on their mobile at a dozen merchants in Oslo. The pilot “Tap2Pay” was a great success that Telenor will be building further on.
Watch the “Tap2Pay” pilot here.
It is becoming increasingly clear that mobile contactless services, enabled by NFC, represent the next wave of innovation for the mobile industry. Cooperation is key to success in the NFC-ecosystem and Telenor recommends a multi-operator and a multi-service approach. Telenor will support open and global standards in the different NFC solutions to ensure interoperability and scale.
Telenor will work to ensure that new NFC services are implemented according to GSMA’s, ETSI’s and Global Platform’s specifications. J2ME and Android and other OS specifications for user interaction should also be considered. NFC will work without these specifications, but without a local user interface on the mobile phone.
Read more about the standards that Telenor recommends for NFC services here
Near Field Communications (NFC) is a two‐way communication technology based on radio‐frequency identification (RFID). The main difference between RFID and NFC is the operating distance, which for NFC is set to approximately 10 centimeters. The main areas of NFC usage are payment, ticketing, access control and information services.
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