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Following on Sprint’s launch of their employee-only WiMAX/XOHM trial network, the struggling national wireless carrier has announced their plans to roll-out NFC (Near Field Communication) trials in the San Francisco Bay Area. NFC technology basically allows users to pay for goods and services with a simple swipe of the handset near an NFC-enabled payment terminal. NFC has been in use in other countries (think Japan and South Korea) for quite some time now, and has found a fairy strong following in mobile phone-users that want the convenience of combining their handset with their wallet.
Sprint has teamed up with the San Francisco’s Bay Area Transit Authority and “Jack in the Box” to offer NFC payments for train-fare and burgers. The NFC-trial will run from January through May of 2008, and will presumably use already-released Sprint handsets, modified with NFC technology, of course.
Any BART-riders willing to participate in Sprint’s NFC trial? Sign-up and let us know how you like it!
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
