Orange, France’s leading mobile operator with more than 27 million subscribers, and Gemalto announce the first large-scale rollout of a SIM-based NFC solution to enable NFC-readiness for mass deployment of mobile contactless services. Orange is the first operator in Europe to deploy latest-generation NFC SIM cards to its customers in France at a national scale. The UpTeq NFC high-end SIM is first on the market to offer the same security level as chip-based payment or smart cards. Orange...