France-based Twinlinx said it will begin shipments in May and June of the first small quantities of its NFC-enabled stickers that use a Bluetooth connection to communicate with handsets.
The much-delayed stickers are also much anticipated by a number of banks and others, including a few mobile operators, which are frustrated by the scarcity of NFC phones.
Both MasterCard Worldwide and Visa have expressed interest, and MasterCard demonstrated a prototype of the sticker at a trade fair in Hong Kong last month. Paris Métro operator RATP, among others, plans to trial the sticker. So does a major Italian bank, which will put a MasterCard PayPass application on the sticker, NFC Times has learned.