{"id":39249,"date":"2011-12-02T16:03:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T14:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=39249"},"modified":"2011-12-05T10:41:56","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T08:41:56","slug":"nfc-payment-trial-to-launch-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/39249-nfc-payment-trial-to-launch-in-sa.html","title":{"rendered":"NFC payment trial to launch in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"ABSA\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/358422-Absa\">Absa<\/a> has sent out to invitations to an event scheduled to be held on Tuesday, 6 December 2011, to unveil a <a title=\"NFC - Near Field Communications\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/384133-NFC-Near-Field-Communications\">near field communications (NFC)<\/a> payments trial programme.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that the trial will allow payments from NFC-enabled smartphones, though it isn\u2019t clear which handsets or platforms will be supported initially.<\/p>\n<p>According to the invitation, Absa will enable a \u201cfirst of its kind\u201d in mobile payments and the event will be \u201cthe official launch and demonstration of a capability that will change the way South Africans pay for goods and services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the smartphones with NFC support that are in circulation in South Africa, are the Nexus S, <a title=\"Nokia\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314603-Nokia-Corporation\">Nokia<\/a> N9, <a title=\"BlackBerry\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342709-BlackBerry\">BlackBerry<\/a> Bold 9900, and the newly launched BlackBerry Curve 9360.<\/p>\n<p>Considering how few devices support NFC in South Africa at the moment it will be interesting to hear Absa\u2019s plans for the technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absa has invited media to an event where it will be unveiling a trial programme for payments using near field communications<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":39251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2186,4304,3982,35,7171,1413,1859,7173,1357],"class_list":["post-39249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-absa","tag-blackberry-bold-9900","tag-blackberry-curve-9360","tag-headline","tag-near-field-communication","tag-nexus-s","tag-nfc","tag-nfc-payments","tag-nokia-n9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39255,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39249\/revisions\/39255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}