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TMCNet: NFC Forum Hosts First Spotlight Event: Transport and City Life Applications

[June 10, 2008]

NFC Forum Hosts First Spotlight Event: Transport and City Life Applications

WAKEFIELD, Mass. --(Business Wire)-- The NFC Forum (www.nfc-forum.org), a non-profit industry association that advances the use of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, holds its first Spotlight conference today to discuss and demonstrate NFC transport and city life applications. The program features presentations by NFC Forum Vice Chairman Gerhard Romen of Nokia, Dr. Wolf Heine of T-Systems and other representatives of organizations that have deployed NFC projects around the world. Demonstrations and a moderated panel discussion are also on the agenda. Open to NFC Forum members and invited guests, the afternoon event takes place at the LivingXXL restaurant in Frankfurt's Eurotower.


The NFC Forum Spotlight: Transport and City Life conference gives organizations that are involved in NFC projects an opportunity to showcase solutions, share deployment experiences and identify best practices. More than 60 NFC transport and city life projects are now underway worldwide, enabling consumers to purchase public transport tickets, pay for parking, obtain municipal and tourist information, buy products and perform other transactions using their NFC-enabled mobile phones.

"NFC technology offers great time-saving and convenience benefits for consumers in urban environments," said Gerhard Romen, vice chairman of the NFC Forum. "As we are moving rapidly from projects and early deployments to large-scale commercial use, it's vital to enable NFC Forum members to share knowledge with each other and with the public, in order to deliver the best possible solutions and to inspire new implementation ideas. That's what this event is all about."

T-Systems, the enterprise customer unit of Deutsche Telekom, is a Gold supporter of the conference. Silver supporters include mobilkom austria, NXP, RMV and Venyon.

About Near Field Communication Technology

Near Field Communication (NFC) technology provides global interoperability of contactless identification and interconnection technologies. NFC operates in the 13.56 MHz frequency range, over a typical distance of a few centimeters. The underlying layers of NFC technology are based on ISO, ECMA, and ETSI standards. NFC technology is supported by the world's leading communication device manufacturers, semiconductor producers, network operators, IT and services companies, and financial services organizations. NFC is compatible with hundreds of millions of contactless cards and readers already deployed worldwide.

About the NFC Forum

The NFC Forum, www.nfc-forum.org, was launched as a non-profit industry association in 2004 by leading mobile communications, semiconductor and consumer electronics companies. The Forum's mission is to advance the use of Near Field Communication technology by developing specifications, ensuring interoperability among devices and services, and educating the market about NFC technology. The Forum's 150+ global member companies currently are developing specifications for a modular NFC device architecture, and protocols for interoperable data exchange and device-independent service delivery, device discovery, and device capability.

The NFC Forum's Sponsor members, which hold seats on the Board of Directors, include leading players in key industries around the world. The Sponsor members are: HP, MasterCard International, Microsoft Corp., NEC, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Inc., NXP Semiconductors, Panasonic, Renesas Technology, Samsung, Sony Corporation, and Visa International.

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