0 0 Scope: Rollout Status: In progress Switzerland 46.9479 7.44461 Launch: Jul 2014 Main Application: Payment Mobile Operator: Swisscom Mobile Operator: Orange (planned for 2014) Mobile Operator: Sunrise (planned for 2014) Service Provider (application): Cornèrcard (Visa payWave) Service Provider (application): Aduno/Viseca (PayPass, planned) Service Provider (application): UBS (PayPass, payWave, planned) Service Provider (application): The Coop (loyalty, mid-2015) Merchants: About 50,000 merchant locations in Switzerland, which accept contactless payments, other contactless POS terminals elsewhere Users: N/A NFC Handsets: Samsung Galaxy S5 NFC Handsets: Samsung Galaxy S4 NFC Handsets: Samsung Galaxy Note 3 NFC Handsets: Samsung Galaxy Note 2 LTE NFC Handsets: Samsung Galaxy S4 Active NFC Handsets: Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini NFC Handsets: Samsung Galaxy S III NFC Handsets: Samsung Galaxy S III Mini NFC Handsets: HTC One (M8) NFC Handsets: HTC One Max NFC Handsets: HTC One TSM*: N/A Secure Element: SIM Other Vendors: Visa Europe (Visa payWave application), Helixion (mobile wallet platform developer), Legic Identsystems (access-control application), Giesecke & Devrient (SIM supplier), NXP Semiconductors (NFC phone chips), Broadcom (NFC phone chips) Switzerland’s other two major telcos, Orange and Sunrise, are expected to launch the NFC Times Take: Like most telcos, Swisscom has expressed skepticism about host-card emulation, which would allow card issuers to avoid paying SIM rental fees to telcos. The telco also notes on its Tapit Web site that users of Google’s Nexus smartphones are out of luck. They can’t use Tapit since these phones do not support SIM-based NFC payment. * Trusted Service Manager: Defined loosely to include companies or other organizations securely distributing, provisioning and managing applications, generally over the air, on secure elements in NFC mobile phones; or licensing their platforms for this purpose. N/A: Not available or not applicable. Last update: Aug. 2014 © NFC Times and Forthwrite Media. NFC Times content is for individual use and cannot be copied or distributed without the express permission of the publisher.Related Stories: Analysis: Apple Chips Away at Fortress Europe with Another Major Bank Planning to Join Apple PayAnalysis: Apple Sees Familiar Pattern with Apple Pay Launch in SwitzerlandSwiss Telcos to Share Tapit NFC Mobile Wallet PlatformSwatch Expands Payments Service–Provides Affordable Analog Alternative to SmartwatchesSamsung ‘Officially’ Launches First Pays Service in Nordics and Middle East; Expands Beta to Two More CountriesNetcetera Acquires Longtime NFC Tech Supplier Nexperts, as It Seeks to Expand Multichannel Offer to European BanksSwiss Competition Officials Decline to Investigate Apple Pay Antitrust Complaint for NowApple to Launch Payments on Web; Pursues Divide-and-Conquer Strategy for Signing Up Banksread more