NFC Times Exclusive – Payments standards group EMVCo said it doesn’t expect problems with the NFC booster technology used by Apple in its new iPhones, although the group acknowledged that the technology is “very new and has not yet been fully studied and standardized.”

Despite the fact there have been few if any reports so far of problems with the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus working with certified contactless point-of-sale terminals to conduct Apple Pay transactions, the lack of standards for the booster technology, including standardized tests, means certain POS terminals in the field might not communicate well, if at all, when users tap their iPhones to the terminals. 

As NFC Times reported in October, Apple Pay is believed to be the first commercial rollout of the booster technology for payments in NFC-enabled smartphones–though the technology has been used to enable tiny antennas to be embedded in microSD cards and SIM cards to give non-NFC phones a contactless interface. These cards, though certified by the major payment schemes, have not been widely deployed.