Mobile Money Summit: Nice! Orange Preps NFC Expansion

Orange plans to take its French NFC ‘Cityzi’ service nationwide following an initial successful launch in Nice. “This year we will be opening new cities,” said Thierry Barba, director of Ecosystem Development at Orange Group. “20-30 projects have been identified.” Barba used his presentation to highlight how Orange is the first operator to commercially deploy two mobile SIM-based NFC services. The Nice launch in May 2010, using Samsung devices, was followed by a UK launch last month, dubbed ‘Quicktap’, with partner Barclaycard. Barba also noted that this summer the service will become interoperable, with a Quicktap customer in the UK able to use the Nice service. Read More