Thursday, January 27, 2011

Everything Everywhere Partners with Barclaycard to Bring NFC Payments to Mobiles

Orange, T-Mobile and Barclaycard make NFC mobile payments a reality with 40,000 retailers on board, summer launch

Read more: Orange and Barclaycard make NFC mobile payments a reality - Pocket-lint http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/38151/orange-barclaycard-nfc-mobile-wallet#ixzz1CFWJtWd4

Everything Everywhere, parent company of mobile operators T-Mobile and Orange, has announced that it is to partner with Barclaycard to bring Near Field Communications (NFC) payments to customer handsets, reducing the need for credit cards and cash. Pocket-lint reports that the partnership signals the UK’s first commercial contactless mobile payments service and is due to be rolled out to customers by the Summer, possibly before July.

Photo Courtesy of the Daily Mail

Barclaycard and the UK's biggest mobile phone network, Everything Everywhere, which includes Orange and T-mobile, have signed a partnership to bring NFC Mobile to the U.K. The two claim it will be the the biggest revolution in payments since credit cards were introduced in this country more than 40 years ago. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1350709/iPhone-5-credit-card-Pay-shopping-swipe-mobile-phone.html#ixzz1CFIRLAk1