After eight years of preparatory work, Bouygues Telecom reportedly is ending its near field communication program, meaning it will not publicize NFC features on handsets it sells, nor try to create new services based on NFC.
Presumably the French mobile operator has concluded that new revenue-generating applications cannot be created or popularized in the immediate future.
Sunday, January 12, 2014
French Mobile Operator Abandons Near Field Communications Program
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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