The GSMA Pay-Buy-Mobile initiative is alive and moving forward w.r.t. NFC standardization, in this case, w.r.t. secure elements for NFC applications.

Developed by the 45 operators globally supporting the GSMA’s Pay-Buy-Mobile initiative, the requirements will help handset manufacturers to develop NFC-enabled phones that are compatible with operators’ planned NFC services.

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The requirements build on the standardisation work completed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), which has selected the Single Wire Protocol to provide the interface between the Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC) — recommended by the GSMA as the Secure Element for NFC applications — and the NFC chipset embedded in the handset.

Pay-Buy-Mobile was announced a year ago at the 2007 GSMA World.

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