Dutch providers begin mid next year with their mobile payment solution. The nfc-based service after a test of several weeks nationwide should be introduced and prevent KPN a doorvoerpijp for data.
The field test must be in the second or third quarter of next year started, said KPN spokesman Peter of Lions during a nfc conference in Singapore this week. First, a trial will start in a medium-sized city, a few weeks after that, should all Dutch people be able to pay using nfc technology. The cooperation of the providers with the banks was announced last year.
The providers want to hurry with the introduction, because other providers of payment services are coming. “We need the market to control, before a fragmented market and a provider with a lot of money on the market.” Van Leeuwen, referring, presumably, to Google and Apple; Google announced in may its payment service Wallet, while Apple is according to rumours also works to services on the basis of nfc.
The payment service constitutes an important source of income for the future, says Van Leeuwen. “Providers threaten a doorvoerpijp of data, just like banks are threatening a doorvoerpijp of money. This is why the partnership made sense.” KPN recently saw the plan to provide additional money for internet services will go up in smoke, because the Second Room net neutrality in the telecom law. Therefore providers will not be able to distinguish between different types of internet traffic. The additional questions for popular services such as Skype and YouTube was one of the revenue models for the coming years.
The payment service works with nfc, a technology that secure contact between the hardware at a short distance. Nfc can be built-in in phones such as the Nokia C7 and Google Nexus S the case, but a phone can also be provided by a sticker of nfc will be provided. The data of the “mobile wallet” stored on the secure part of the sim card.