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Vendor Group Forecasts Up to 120 Million NFC Secure Elements for 2012
By: Dan Balaban Smart card association Eurosmart forecasts that vendors will ship 80 million to 120 million secure elements in 2012, as chip and card vendors begin their first significant shipments...
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SIM Vendors Promote ‘Open API’ for NFC Phones; Google Not Yet Onboard
Nov 30 2011 (All day) By: Dan Balaban NFC phone software from SIM vendor group the SIMalliance that helps phone app developers tie into the secure elements on NFC phones is getting strong support from...
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GlobalPlatform and SIMalliance Seek to Build ‘De Facto Standard’ for...
Jan 12 2012 (All day) By: Dan Balaban The SIMalliance trade group and GlobalPlatform standards organization say they are working on what they predict will become a “de-facto standard” for the way apps...
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Vendors Shipped 30 million NFC SIM Cards in 2012, Led by Demand in Korea and...
By: Kiona Smith-Strickland SIM manufacturers shipped 30 million NFC SIM cards in 2012, 70% of them to mobile operators in South Korea and Japan, with Europe beginning to ramp up, the SIMalliance...
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Vendor Group: NFC Secure Element Market to Grow by Two-Thirds This Year
By: Dan Balaban Smart card vendor association Eurosmart has substantially increased its estimate for NFC secure element shipments for 2012–by 50% to 150 million units–and forecasts that secure...
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NFC SIM Shipments Reach 30 Million in H1–Matching FY 2012, as Isis Gears Up;...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive: SIM vendors shipped just over 31 million NFC SIM cards to mobile operators during the first half of 2013–equaling the number of NFC SIMs during all of 2012–and...
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NFC SIM Shipments Hit 30 Million in H1–Matching Full-Year 2012, as Isis Gears...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive: SIM vendors shipped a little more than 31 million NFC SIM cards to mobile operators during the first half of 2013–equaling the number of NFC SIMs during all of...
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Vendor Group Projects Secure Element Shipments Will Grow by More Than 60% in...
By: Dan Balaban Smart card vendor association Eurosmart today confirmed its earlier projection that industry suppliers would ship at least 250 million secure elements for NFC devices in 2013, and...
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NFC SIM Volumes Projected to Show Moderate Growth in 2014, Though Impact of...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive: Mobile network operators will take delivery of at least two-thirds more NFC SIMs this year than in 2013, predicts operator trade association, the GSMA, though the...
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NFC SIM Volumes Projected to Show Moderate Growth in 2014, Though Impact of...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive: Mobile network operators will take delivery of at least two-thirds more NFC SIMs this year than in 2013, predicts operator trade association, the GSMA, though the...
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SIM Vendor Group Contends NFC SIM Growth Healthy; Refuses to Call HCE a Threat
Apr 24 2014 (All day) By: Dan Balaban The SIMalliance vendor group said its members shipped 78 million NFC SIMs last year, with Japan and South Korea again the top destination for the high-end...
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Vendor Group Confirms Strong Growth in Secure Elements and Contactless in...
By: Dan Balaban Vendor association Eurosmart has confirmed its estimate of 250 million secure elements shipped in 2013, up from 150 million units in 2012, and reported strong growth for contactless...
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SIMalliance Keeps an Eye on HCE, as It Reports NFC SIM Shipment Growth in 2013
By: Kiona Smith-Strickland SIM vendor association SIMalliance offered more details about its members’ overall NFC SIM shipments in 2013, and despite the emergence of such alternatives as host-card...
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NFC SIM Shipments Show Strong Gains in 2014, but Future Growth Remains in Doubt
Apr 23 2015 By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive Insight – The SIMalliance vendor group is playing up what it calls soaring growth in NFC SIM shipments in 2014, despite troubling signs for the future...
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Vendor Group Confirms 30% Growth in NFC Secure Elements in 2014; Revises 2015...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive Insight – Smart card vendor association Eurosmart has confirmed its estimate that vendors shipped 350 million NFC secure elements last year, up 30% from the year...
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Apple, Samsung Drive Growth of NFC Secure Elements: Vendor Group
Nov 18 2015 By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive Insight – PARIS: Vendor trade group Eurosmart is projecting that NFC secure element shipments will grow by 20% in 2016 to 590 million, mainly fueled by...
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SIMalliance Reports NFC SIM Shipments were ‘Static’ in 2015 but Refuses to...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive Insight – It is perhaps a measure of just how big of a hit SIM suppliers took from the closing of the Softcard wallet in the U.S. early last year that their...
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NFC Secure Element Shipments to Miss Vendor Forecasts; Trade Group Eurosmart...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive – NFC secure element shipments for 2016 will be lower than earlier forecasts by card and chip vendor trade association Eurosmart, although the group is not saying...
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Analysis: Fall in NFC SIM Card Shipments Years in the Making
By: Dan Balaban and Istvan Fekete NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – SIM card vendor trade group the SIMalliance acknowledged for the first time that NFC SIM shipments are dropping and blamed...
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NFC Secure Element Shipments Likely Dropped for First Time in 2016, and...
By: Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Shipments of NFC secure elements almost certainly fell in 2016, based on recent figures released by vendor association Eurosmart, though the group is...
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