BARCELONA, Spain – It’s an oft-repeated goal by NFC backers–to enable customers to use a variety of NFC services when they roam in different countries by downloading the local applications when they arrive at the airport or at the point of service.
But given the interoperability problems that telcos and service providers face in their domestic markets, ensuring interoperability for local NFC applications across borders will not be easy.
Yet major mobile operators in four East Asian markets are taking a shot at it, forming the Asia NFC Alliance, which was announced Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The main charge of the group is to set technical standards and platforms to enable customers to use NFC services when they travel to the various countries.