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Market & Data Reports - 15/09/2008 Near Field Communications

A revolution in the mobile handset market?

For handset players, the growing portion of wireless connectivity modules embedded in handsets constitutes the first step to enter the wireless ecosystem of opportunities. Today as more data transit through mobile phones, development of wireless ecosystems from WLAN to WPAN where information is transmitted thanks to short range technologies (Bluetooth, UWB, Zigbee, NFC) could greatly impact the historic use of operators network as primary data transmitter but also represent a real opportunity to diversify their business.


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1. What is Near Field Communication Technology?

1.1. The development of short range wireless technologies
1.2. The emergence of NFC Technology
1.3. Regulation
1.4. Integration of NFC chipsets in Mobile Phones
• Phone Architecture
• The Connectivity and Packaging Trend
• Bluetooth Integration
• Current NFC phones

2. The NFC Market

2.1. A slow NFC adoption
• NFC Handset Market Forecast up to 2012
2.2. Main NFC solution providers
3. NFC key applications
3.1. NFC key applications
• Service initiation
• Peer to peer
• Payment and ticketing
3.2. Mobile Payments
• Development of Contactless payments
• The mobile payment Value chain
• Which business model?
• Competing technologies
3.3. Mobile Ticketing
• Successful trials
• The mobile ticketing Value chain
• A growing trend of mobile ticketing

4. What are the evolutions for NFC?

4.1. Towards a global adoption…
4.2. …slowed by the lack of viable business models
4.3. Innovative Applications based on NFC
• NFC as a set up technology
• Shared Services
• Image Printing
• Hands-free connections
• Advertising: Smart Posters
• Location Identification
• Health related applications
• Tourism related applications

5. Major NFC worldwide trial

• A promising technology
• An ecosystem currently building up
• The critical question of business model
• The need for a key application to drive the adoption of NFC within handsets
• Which evolution for the NFC technology?

• How will the introduction of NFC chipsets mobile phones revolutionize how consumers interact with their environment?

• After Asia, especially Japan for mobile wallet application, is the NFC technology gaining ground in North America and Europe?

• What are the drivers of the NFC market?

• More than Payment and Ticketing applications, what are the next key NFC Applications: Smart Posters, Peer to peer,...?

• NFC future outlooks: market and forecasts up to 2012?
 Actors analysed

Main Associations :

• NFC Forum
• GSM Association

Solution Providers :  

• Gemalto
• Giesecke & Devrient
• Inside Contactless
• Nokia
• NXP
• Oberthur
• ST Micro Electronics
• Sony
• Visa
• Vivotech


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