The agreement enables Gemalto to complement its existing NFC application portfolio with MIFARE DESFire™ and MIFARE Plus™ technology for its UICC security solutions. As a result, mobile operators and service providers will be able to offer a broad range of mobile contactless services thanks to the widened availability of UICC cards incorporating MIFARE. The contactless technology is widespread and provides high levels of performance, flexibility and security in public transportation, access management, event ticketing and customer loyalty programs. “MIFARE is already at the heart of contactless infrastructures around the world,” said Henri Ardevol, vice president and general manager, secure transactions, NXP Semiconductors. “We are proud to collaborate with Gemalto to offer the convenience of this technology to a new target of 5 billion mobile phone users.” www.nxp.com www.gemalto.com