The Dutch consortium of banks and telecom providers that is working on a shared nfc platform for the Netherlands, the roll-out be delayed until 2013, because the European approval should wait. T-Mobile is left.
Initially, it was planned that the nfc platform in mid-2012 would start. “We need the market to go control before that shreds, and there is another provider with a lot of money on the market”, it was called by the mouth of KPN. It is now clear that the rollout has been delayed until at least the spring of 2013.
“During discussions with the NMa, we got the advice to the creation of a central service organisation, as part of the project, to the European Commission”, says Wim Westerhof of the Rabobank against Tweakers.net. Westerhof leads to the so-called Six Pack project. According to him, approval is needed because of the market position of the participating banks.
Westerhof expected in February to gain approval for the establishment of the service organization, a ‘trusted services manager or TSM. Below would be the further implementation of the platform can begin, but consumers would, by the delay time only in the spring of 2013 on the nfc payment options.
In the project the banks are ABN AMRO, ING and Rabobank are involved, as well as the providers KPN and Vodafone. T-Mobile is now from Six Pack stepped. Parent company Deutsche Telekom wants is not a shareholder in the TSM, which, as the link between the services of the banks and the providers will act. “The result is that the other five parties with higher costs”, acknowledge Westerhof. According to him, continues T-Mobile’s nfc support and the provider, in the future, just sim cards with the technology release. The other five companies to stress behind the project.