So far – at least should be significantly more likely be used from next year in Germany – NFC technology fristende still a niche existence. While you set in this country still on some limited regional pilot projects, one wants to allow cashless paying about NFC already 2013 throughout in the United States.

Until now Nokia and Google, which use the corresponding chips in their smartphones or operating systems and support are the driving force behind the NFC technology. So, Android will support the NFC technology with version 2.3, Nokia wants to use NFC chips in all 2011 upcoming smartphones.

In the United States the three largest mobile telephony providers – founded AT & T Wireless, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless – a joint venture called “ISIS”. Under this roof you jointly developed a system for paying via NFC. With “Barclaycard U.S.” and one has to convince also already the first companies in the financial sector from the input “Discover financial service”.

The distribution of the NFC-capable devices should be in addition to the number of digits of the payment but crucial. By 2014, the number of annually sold, compatible mobile phones of today around 52.6 million to increase to over 220 million according to iSuppli. Four out of a hundred sold mobile phones today have NFC technology, it will be 2014 already 13.

With NFC, in the future, in particular smaller amounts are to be paid without cash. But the “near field communication” technique can be used for data transfer, the transfer rates are but much lower than for example in Bluetooth. A range of only a few centimetres, for this technology considered but very resource-friendly.