 | LICENSING DEALS signed by Innovision will see NFC functionality being built into 15% to 20% of the handsets shipped in 2012, says the company, as leading mobile phone chipset manufacturers look for low cost ways to add NFC into mass market mobile phones. Both ABI Research and IMS Research, meanwhile, have produced new five year forecasts of the NFC market. While both forecasts differ widely — IMS says 785 million NFC chips will ship in 2015 while ABI forecasts a more cautious 300 million — it's becoming clearer every week that NFC is now very much here to stay. 
Sarah Clark, Editor
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| The mobile network operator is starting small with a limited rollout in the Czech city of Pilsen but a business strategy is now in place and commercial launches in the UK and Spain could be next. Full story »
Following the successful launch of the Cityzi NFC service in Nice, a further "three to five" cities are to receive funding from the French government as the country gears up for the introduction of a nationwide commercial NFC service. Full story »
Mobile network operators Du and Etisalat have had to put back their planned NFC commercial launches due to a lack of NFC phones, the operators have told Emirates Business 24|7. Full story »
1,500 customers of Telefónica and La Caixa have been issued with Samsung S5230 NFC phones which they can use to make debit and credit card payments in taxis, sports centres, at market stalls and in retail stores. Full story »
China's largest mobile network operator is coming under pressure from MIIT, the national technology regulator, to join the Chinese banks and its two rival operators China Unicom and China Telecom in adopting a single, national mobile payments standard based on NFC standard technology. Full story »
Adding NFC functionality to a mobile phone will soon cost less than a dollar, says Innovision's Stephen Graham, with 15% to 20% of all the handsets shipped in 2012 set to include the company's low-cost NFC technology. Full story »
• Innovision signs $6m IP licensing deal • NXP adds NFC to carbon emissions tracking project • Discover, MasterCard certify new mobile contactless stickers from Inside and CPI • IMS forecasts 785 million NFC chips to ship in 2015 • 300 million NFC chips to ship in 2015, says ABI • STMicro, NXP, Trusted Logic and Stollmann join forces to add NFC to Android devices • Sberbank to run NFC payments and ticketing trial in Moscow • Oi Paggo to run NFC field trial in Brazil using Gemalto NFC add-on
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