Near Field Communication (NFC) Market Research Report from ABI Research

Near Field Communication (NFC)

Leveraging Contactless for Mobile Payments, Content and Access

From the consumer’s point of view, using NFC is intuitive. But NFC adoption will require a high level of standardization, interoperability and security across multiple applications and by companies and organizations across many disparate industries. For NFC to reach mass deployment, a vast array of service and equipment providers have to come together to determine a stable hardware configuration.

This study examines the proposition that the key to the technology’s development and deployment is the mobile handset, and shows why wireless operators must be confident that they will see a clear return from specifying NFC in their latest handsets. It discusses how, in turn, increasing numbers of NFC-enabled handsets in the market, in the medium and long term, will drive widespread NFC application rollout and adoption. It includes forecasts for – among others – device and chipset shipments and revenues.

What Does This Report Answer?

What key issues are yet to be tackled in seeing NFC integrated into mobile handsets?
What is the shape of the emerging ecosystem that will support NFC adoption?
What are the key NFC technology standards and specification developments?
Where are leading NFC trials and operator development under way around the world?
What are the market forecasts for NFC component shipments and handset integration rates?

Who Needs This Report?

Handset manufacturers
Wireless operators
Wireless applications and services developers/vendors
Contactless payment hardware vendors
Retailers
Credit card associations and issuers
Contactless IC vendors
Transportation providers
RFID tag and inlay manufacturers

1.1 Making NFC a Reality
1.1.1 A Reality Check
1.1.2 NFC Interest Is Turning into Practical Development
1.1.3 What Is Still Required
1.1.4 Who Is Responsible
1.1.5 When Will Trials Turn into Deployments?
1.1.6 How Does the NFC Market Take Shape?
1.2 Which NFC Technology Will Lead?
1.3 Which Applications Will Lead?
1.4 Which Regions Will Lead?
1.5 What Is the Optimal NFC Customer Demographic?
1.5.1 Matching NFC Application Packages to Appropriate Customer Segment
Section 2. MARKET ISSUES
2.1 The NFC Vision
2.1.1 The Promise of NFC and the Touch Paradigm
2.1.2 The Evolutionary Path for NFC Adoption
2.1.2.1 Bespoke Applications
2.1.3 NFC Contactless Payments
2.1.4 Subscriber Acceptance
2.1.5 The Appeal of NFC to Consumers
2.1.5.1 The Appeal to Operators
2.1.5.2 GSM Operators Prefer Secure Element in SIM
2.1.5.3 Issuer Benefits
2.1.5.4 Merchant Benefits
2.1.5.5 Handset Operator Benefits
2.1.5.6 NFC Payment Infrastructure in Waiting
2.1.5.7 Soft Card and NFC Handset Management
2.1.6 Transportation
2.2 The DoCoMo Example
2.2.1 Tokyo Transit
2.3 NTT DoCoMo and FeliCa
2.4 Pre-Paid/Top-Up
2.5 Event Ticketing
2.6 Smart Tags
2.7 Smart Tags to Shift Infrastructure Costs from Company to Consumer
2.8 Global Interoperability
2.8.1 Simplifying NFC Manufacturing and Adoption
2.9 NFC Connectivity
2.9.1 Higher Bandwidth Communications
2.9.1.1 Bluetooth
2.10 Bluetooth/Wi-Fi + NFC
2.10.1 Wi-Fi
2.10.1.1 Wireless Internet
2.10.1.2 Wireless USB
2.10.2 NFC and Peripheral Electronics
2.10.3 NFC and Consumer Electronics
2.10.4 Peer-to-peer Payments
2.10.5 NFC and Automobiles
2.10.6 NFC and Gaming
2.11 NFC Handsets
2.11.1 Handset Availability
2.11.2 NFC Handset Configuration
2.11.2.1 SIM versus Secure Element
2.11.2.2 SIM, USB, or SD?
2.12 Moving Past Transaction Revenues for Operators
2.12.1 Rousing Operator Handset Investment
2.12.1.1 Operator and Issuers Intransigence
2.13 Managing NFC Applications
2.13.1 The StoLPaN European NFC Initiative
2.13.2 OTA Activation/Management
2.13.3 Does Trusted Third Party Model Last?
2.14 Trials Reveal Growing Interest and Progress
2.14.1 North America NFC Trials
2.14.1.1 Discover Financial Services
2.14.1.2 New York City Mobile Trial
2.14.1.3 7-Eleven Speak Out
2.14.1.4 FlyBy at the Philips Arena
2.14.2 Europe NFC Trials
2.14.2.1 City of Caen, France
2.14.2.2 RMV, Germany
2.14.2.3 JCB , Netherlands
2.14.2.4 Rabobank , Netherlands
2.14.2.5 Upper Austria University NFC Trial
2.14.2.6 Strasbourg, France,
2.14.2.7 Bouygues Telecom, RAPT, France
2.14.3 Asia-Pacific NFC Trials
2.14.3.1 Visa and SK Telecom NFC with USIM card and OTA technologies
2.14.3.2 MasterCard, Taipei Fubon Bank and Taiwan Mobile
2.14.3.3 Ez-Link Pte
2.15 Royalties
2.16 NFC Target Demographic
2.16.1 By Region
2.16.2 By Subscriber
2.17 Rival Technologies
2.17.1 Payment
2.17.2 Service Discovery
Section 3. TECHNOLOGY ISSUES
3.1 NFC Overview
3.1.1 NFC Tags
3.1.1.1 Passive and Active Power Tags
3.1.1.2 Transponder Components
3.1.1.2.1 Integrated Circuits
3.1.1.2.2 Power Source
3.1.1.2.3 Antenna Design
3.1.1.2.4 Assembly Process
3.1.1.2.5 Packaging and Operating System
3.1.2 NFC Handsets
3.1.2.1 Reader Mode
3.1.3 Frequency Band
3.1.3.1 High Frequency
3.1.4 Packaging and Operating System
3.1.5 Readers
3.2 NFC - Global Standards
3.2.1 ISO 14443
3.2.2 ISO|IEC 15693
3.3 NFC Specific Standards
3.3.1 ECMA 340 NFC IP1
3.3.2 ECMA 352 NFC IP2
3.3.3 ISO | IEC 18092
3.3.4 ISO 7816
3.4 Mobile Handset Device Types
3.5 NFC Chipset and Modem
3.5.1 NFC Modem Interface Alternatives
3.5.2 Range Requirements
3.5.3 Implications for Bluetooth
3.6 NFC Power Requirements
3.6.1 Implications for Host Devices
3.7 Certification and Testing
3.8 NFC GSM Family Networks
3.9 NFC in CDMA Family Networks
3.10 NFC Forum Specification Update
3.10.1 Device and Tag Communication Specifications
3.10.1.1 NFC Data Exchange Format (NDEF)
3.10.1.2 NFC Record Type Definition (RTD)
3.10.1.3 Smart Poster Record Type Definition (RTD)
3.10.1.4 Text Record Type Description (Text RTD)
3.10.1.5 Universal Resource Identifier Service Record Type Description (URI RTD)
3.10.2 Tag Specifications
3.10.3 To Be Delivered
Section 4. MARKET FORECASTS
4.1 Methodology
4.1.1 Deriving the Growth Coefficients
4.1.2 The New Product Conundrum
4.1.3 Using Analogical Products as a Base-line
4.2 NFC Forecasts
4.3 Cellular Handsets
4.4 NFC Enabled Handsets
4.5 Consumer Electronics
Section 5. VENDOR PROFILES
5.1 American Express Company
5.2 Anadigm Inc
5.3 ASK
5.4 Atmel Corporation
5.5 BenQ
5.6 Bouygues Telecom
5.7 Ericsson Technology Licensing AB
5.8 CETECOM
5.9 Chase Manhattan Bank
5.10 Cingular Wireless
5.11 CitiGroup
5.12 Cubic Corporation
5.13 Gemalto
5.14 Glue4 Technologies
5.15 Giesecke & Devrient
5.16 Electronic Data Systems Corporation (EDS)
5.17 France Telecom
5.18 Hewlett-Packard
5.19 Ingenico
5.20 Inside Contactless
5.21 Innovision Research & Technology plc
5.22 JCB Co. Ltd
5.23 LogicaCMG
5.24 MasterCard Worldwide
5.25 Microsoft Corporation
5.26 Mobey Forum
5.27 Motorola Inc
5.28 National Technical Systems
5.29 Narian Technologies
5.30 NEC Corp
5.31 Nokia
5.32 NTT DoCoMo
5.33 NXP
5.34 Oberthur Card Systems
5.35 On Track Innovations
5.36 Panasonic
5.37 RF Micro Devices
5.38 Samsung Electronics Company LTD
5.39 Smart System Technologies
5.40 Sirit Inc
5.41 Sony Corporation
5.42 STMicroelectronics
5.43 Stolpan
5.44 Swisscom AG
5.45 Texas Instruments Inc
5.46 Venyon
5.47 VeriFone Holdings Inc
5.48 Visa International
5.49 ViVOtech Inc
5.50 Vodafone
Section 6. COMPANY LIST
Section 7. ACRONYMS

SCOPE OF STUDY

SOURCES AND METHODOLOGY

NOTES

Tables

New Product Diffusion Profile
New Product Diffusion Profile (Net Adoptions)
Total NFC Enabled Device Shipments , World Market, Forecasts: 2006 to 2012
NFC Chipset ASP , World Market, Forecasts: 2006 to 2012
Total NFC Chipset Revenue, World Market, Forecasts: 2006 to 2012
Contactless HF RFID Tag Shipments, World Market, Forecasts: 2006 to 2012
Contactless HF RFID Tag Revenue, World Market, Forecasts: 2006 to 2012
Contactless HF RFID Reader Shipments, World Market, Forecasts: 2006 to 2012
Contactless HF RFID Reader Revenue, World Market, Forecasts: 2006 to 2012
Wireless Handset Shipments by Region, World Markets: 2006 to 2012
Wireless Handset Shipments by Phone Type, World Market: 2006 to 2012
NFC-Enabled Handset Shipments by Phone Type, World Market, Forecasts: 2006 to 2012
NFC-Enabled Handset Shipments by Phone Type, Asia-Pacific, Forecasts: 2006 to 2012
NFC-Enabled Handset Shipments by Phone Type, North America, Forecasts: 2006 to 2012
NFC-Enabled Handset Shipments by Phone Type, Europe, Forecasts: 2006 to 2012
NFC-Enabled Handset Shipments by Phone Type, RoW, Forecasts: 2006 to 2012
NFC Wi-Fi Connectivity Enabling Shipments by Phone Type, World Market, Forecasts: 2006 to 2012
NFC Bluetooth Connectivity-Enabling Shipments by Phone Type, World Market, Forecasts: 2006 to 2012
NFC Payment-Enabled Shipments by Phone Type, World Market, Forecasts: 2006 to 2012
NFC Service Discovery-Enabled Shipments by Phone Type, World Market, Forecasts: 2006 to 2012
NFC Pre-Paid/Top-Up-Enabled Shipments by Phone Type, World Market, Forecasts: 2006 to 2012
NFC Event Ticketing-Enabled Shipments by Phone Type, World Market, Forecasts: 2006 to 2012
NFC Transit-Enabled Shipments by Phone Type, World Market, Forecasts: 2006 to 2012
NFC Wi-Fi-Enabled Consumer Electronics Shipments by Type, World Market, Forecasts: 2006 to 2012

Report Code: RR-NFC

Number of Pages:	74

Number of Tables, Charts and Figures:	22

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Release Date:	2Q 2007

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