Credit Card with your phone
NFC trials by o2 are over and the results are positive
09 September 2008
NFC trials by o2 are over and the results are positive
According to o2 in two years people living in London should be able to use their mobile phone as a credit card, which may mean the end of a pocket full of small change.
It is expected that mobile phone owners will be able to go through tube barriers and pay for products such as newspapers and doughnuts using their mobile phone within the next two years.
The revelations are the outcome of a wide-ranging trial of its Near Field Communications (NFC) technology.
Around 500 people in the trial used the Nokia 6131, which combined the Oyster travelcard in London and a Barclaycard Visa from November 2007 to May this year.
More than two thirds of the people who took part said they were interested in having the Barclaycard Visa payment option.
The Oystercard also proved a hit with almost nine out of 10 people doing the trial saying that they wanted to use their mobile instead of a physical travelcard.
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