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The trial let a small number of consumers download a Visa payWave application to an embedded chip in their Nokia NFC phones and tap the phones to pay up to a reported 1,500 baht (US$45) at a growing n

The internal trial enabled staffers to tap their assigned Nokia 6131 NFC phones preloaded with a Visa payWave credit or debit application at a handful of merchant locations in Madrid.

The six-month internal trial tested over-the-air provisioning and payment with an EMV-enabled Visa payWave application at a relatively small number of merchant locations.

Visa and VisaNet Guatemala organized the trial, which enabled users to tap to pay at fast-food restaurants, cinemas and some other merchants at malls.

Internal trial tested contactless payment, including payWave in the planned second phase. The employees could also store and redeem mobile coupons and monitor credit and debit accounts on the phone.

The trial enabled users to tap their Nokia 6212 phones on about 1,000 point-of-sale terminals that accept Visa’s contactless application payWave in Thailand.

During the six-month trial, the bank enabled a limited number of employees and students in Spokane, Washington, to pay wherever PayPass was accepted in the U.S., which included about 70,000 locations

Visa returned to Malaysia, one of the first places it introduced Visa contactless cards, for its first NFC trial for its renamed contactless application payWave.

The largest mobile operator and largest bank, in terms of assets, in the Gulf plan to jointly offer contactless mobile credit using—according to the bank’s announcement--NFC phones from Nokia and Sams