NFC au-dessus de la barre des 500 millisecondes: too slow for London's Tube, says TfL

NFC too slow for London's Tube, says TfL:
Transport for London (TfL) executive Shashi Verma has declared NFC’s read speeds “too slow” for use in the London Underground, reports PCWorld.

Speaking at the Open Mobile Summit conference in London, Verma explained that contactless read speeds on the Tube have to be faster than 500 milliseconds, which NFC can’t make under current standards. According to Verma, NFC used to be fast enough, but a standards change in 2008 moved the secure element from the phone to the SIM card, thus increasing the distance from the antenna and slowing the transaction speed.
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