France: Bank and Telcos Hold Early Test of SIM-Based EMV Payment
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Strasbourg France
Scope:
Trial
Status:
Completed
MasterCard’s PayPass payment application was preloaded on SIM cards. At the time of the launch, it was the first NFC trial with a payment application supporting the EMV standard. It was also reportedly the first payment app stored on a SIM card. The trial ended in November 2007, but was followed in short order by a much larger—multiplayer—NFC payment trial in Strasbourg and Caen, France.
NFC Times Take:
Crédit Mutuel showed its early interest in NFC and contactless with this groundbreaking trial.
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