Tag: Phone

Analyst says services, not payments, will drive NFC to mass…

Let’s say you are one of the lucky consumers that purchases one of the 100 million NFC-enabled mobile devices that will ship worldwide in 2012.  How do you picture yourself using it?  To buy your morning coffee quickly with just a wave of your phone? Or for some other application like pairing devices and reading […]

Voice over LTE matters to operators

We have previously blogged about the challenges that LTE still faces, despite the general agreement being that LTE provides a great opportunity for operators. At the same event, the recent LTE Conference in Barcelona, as well as seeing the challenges, we also saw one key theme emerging that can demonstrate just how important LTE is […]

NFC – What’s the view on the street?

It’s official. NFC is here; but how many people know it? We commissioned Opinion Matters to carry out research that highlights the need for consumer education on NFC – or to put it correctly: Near Field Communication, as only 32% of consumers know what NFC actually stands for, while one third of respondents worry about using a mobile wallet for security reasons.