Amongst the 29 answers, 17 projects have been shortlisted to share the 20 M€ funding of the national call for projects “deployment of NFC mobile contactless services”.

Nextendis is pleased to have contributed to the elaboration of the public transportation part of some of the 17 shortlisted answers and is already working on supporting operationally the NFC ticketing projects of shortlisted territories. The projects supported by Nextendis will quickly allow the inhabitants of these agglomerations to purchase and validate their transport fares directly from their mobile phones.

Read more here (https://www.nfcworld.com/2012/01/03/312152/seventeen-cities-shortlisted-for-20m-euro-french-government-nfc-grant/#utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nfcw+%28NFC+World%29)

Official press release of the French government (in French) (https://investissement-avenir.gouvernement.fr/sites/default/files/user/CP_pr%C3%A9s%C3%A9lection_NFC.pdf)