October 21, 2005
French NFC Payment Trial Kicks Off
RFID Journal reports on the city of Caen, where retailers are testing a payments system using mobile phones equipped with near field communication RFID tags.
"For the next six months, 200 residents of Caen, a city of 150,000 located in northwestern France, will have a new way to pay for groceries and other goods, thanks to a field trial of RFID-enabled cell phones.
Participants in the trial, which began this week, can now use Samsung D500 mobile phones to pay for goods at a Monoprix supermarket, a Galeries Lafayette department store and nine other retail locations in Caen. The retailers are equipped with RFID-enabled payment terminals provided by point-of-sale terminal manufacturer Ingenico.
To make a purchase, a customer tells the cashier he or she would like to pay using the phone. The cashier readies the register to receive payment info via RFID, then the customer simply waves the phone in front of the terminal. "
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