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Bell ID seeks to bring NFC to the masses

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Smart card management company Bell ID, The Netherlands, has launched a mobile pilot program that can help companies migrate to NFC. It’s kit provides all the components needed, including an NFC-enabled phone, an on-the-phone wallet and an over the air application loading capability.

The Instant NFC Pilot includes all required hardware and software to run a pilot. The program uses Bell’s ANDiS technology, its open source management platform. A back office life cycle management system will be made available on the Web.

The solution can be of particular interest to banks, mobile network operators, transport operators, merchants and organizations interested in loading applications to NFC enabled phones. [end] 

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