RIM, Telefonica announce NFC trial, aim to launch mobile wallet next year

RIM’s NFC campaign is set to roll into Iberia, now that the BlackBerry manufacturer has announced a brand new partnership with Madrid-based Telefonica . This week, both companies unveiled plans to start testing a mobile payment and ID card system around the Spanish capital, within the hopes of launching commercial services next year. The so-called Telefonica Wallet for BlackBerry trial will involve some 350 Telefonica employees and a select group of testers within Madrid, each of whom shall be ready to make payments, access offices and check bank statements from their BlackBerry handsets. Telefonica’s Matthew Key told Reuters that his company chose RIM to take part within the trial primarily due to the security of its BlackBerry platform, stressing the significance of earning enough consumer trust to address sensitive personal data. No specifics yet on when or where the carrier will launch a whole payment system, though Key said that Telefonica’s aiming to bring it to a handful of markets in 2012.

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