NFC Times Exclusive: With interest in host-card emulation continuing to grow and SIM-based NFC rollouts in need of a boost, mobile operators and their global trade association, GSMA, are pushing for significant cuts in the cost and complexity of TSMs and lowering other hurdles that have discouraged service providers from provisioning their applications on SIM cards.
Realizing the threat to their long-held NFC business plans, at least some major mobile operators are pushing to reduce TSM architecture costs by 75% for service providers over the medium term, with TSM cuts of 25% sought sooner than that, NFC Times has learned.
In general, telcos are reducing SIM-rental fees or doing away with the SIM-rental model altogether. They are also seeking to reduce time-to-market for banks to introduce a new application on SIMs from the lengthy 12 months or more it now takes.