Here in the United States the race is on to get a contactless mobile payment system incorporated into the business world. Several are looking at Near-Field Communication (NFC) as the way to go, since many Smartphone’s all ready have the chip or will have the RFID chip this year. Maybe we should look at the French system. France has been doing this since 2010. Orange is the eighth largest telecom operator in the world and had more than 189 million customers in late 2009. France Telecom is using Orange for its mobile network operator and internet provider service. In May of 2010 Orange launched Cityzi Pass in the city of Nice, just south of France. This was a wide scale operation on Oranges’ part to promote contactless mobile services in Europe. They … Read entire article »