Telcos, SIM Vendors Live with HCE; MasterCard Grows Silent on Google Waiver, Weve Deal

With Google’s strong push behind host-card emulation and endorsements from Visa and MasterCard Worldwide, mobile operators, SIM vendors and TSMs are resigned to living with the technology, even publicly supporting it–up to a point.

They are trying to put a positive spin on the potential HCE juggernaut, calling it good for the NFC ecosystem, good for consumer adoption and good for attracting more application developers to build innovative services–even though it is bad for their NFC business models. 

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Among Topics Covered: 

Positioning by telcos and their vendors in response to support for HCE technology by Google and payments networks Visa and MasterCard Isis telco responses to question of whether they would block HCE Operator response to Samsung embedded chips compared with likely response to HCE Contentions by telcos and vendors that secure elements offer higher security than HCE Recommendation on HCE by SIMalliance MasterCard remains mute on Google Waiver Putting tokens on Weve operator SIMs 

Sources Quoted: 

Scott Mulloy, CTO, Isis
Olivier Piou, CEO, Gemalto
David Sear, CEO, Weve 

Among companies and organizations mentioned: 

Isis
Google
Gemalto
Verizon Wireless
AT&T
T-Mobile 
Visa
MasterCard Worldwide
SIMalliance
Weve 

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