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NFC Payments May Lose Carriers
- Mobile Commerce Daily, Thursday, October 30, 2014 2:23 PM
While the launch of Apple Pay and Host Cost Emulation promise to boost near field communications-based payments, one group that is likely to see its role diminish is wireless carriers, according to a new report from Juniper Research. The report, NFC Mobile Payments: Apple Pay, Host Card Emulation & SIM Based Opportunities & Forecasts 2014-2019, forecasts that just 3 percent of NFC mobile payments customers will be controlled by wireless carriers in North America by 2019.
