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 of SIM-based NFC, such as Apple Pay and similar initiatives by other OEMs, as well as growing interest in host-card emulation and the failure of SIM-based NFC services to take off.

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