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The Near Field Communications (NFC) which O2 had been trialling with Nokia has had some optimistic results. Apparently nine out of ten (90% ... Continue reading »
The Near Field Communications (NFC) which O2 had been trialling with Nokia has had some optimistic results. Apparently nine out of ten (90% ... Continue reading »
10 months ago
Come on UK - get your act together! This shouldn't be a single-operator initiative either, in fact I don't see why operators have to be involved at all. If a common standard could be ageed on it could just be put into phones just like Bluetooth is.
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However, I think the it's up to O2 et al to choose an NFC provider that can work with whatever system tfl has in place, be it oyster or something else
The problem, as usual, is all the parties involved to get together and make the whole thing work. Train operators for one have been "slow" (read opposed) to adopt the oyster system fully, ie you cannot use prepay oyster cards in some train stations
In short, this ain't happening before 2012
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Sure there are privacy concerns, etc but I'm all for it
10 months ago
I see almost no value in it at all - if it's that great a concept to combine the two, why have I never seen someone with their Oyster card strapped to their phone with an elastic band, or simply glued to the back? I think O2 is just trying to use this as a lever to get NFC into phones "for free" for other potential applications in the future. It's also worried about being operators being excluded entirely from any futrue NFC-related deployments, and for the control to live with the handset manufacturers instead.
I just wrote a post on this
http://disruptivewireless.blogspot.com/2008/09/...
I can see some value in NFC, but I think the Oyster thing is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist, and the m-wallet is a complete loser.
Dean
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