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Near Field Communication (NFC) is an evolution of contactless and short range RFID technologies. NFC enables easy and intuitive ways of using mobile phones with touch-based technology – operating at a distance of only a few centimeters. NFC is based on pre-existing contactless payment and ticketing standards that are used on a daily basis by millions of people and devices worldwide.

Nokia participates actively in developing NFC standards further through the open NFC Forum, where Nokia is a founding member together with Philips and Sony. Nokia aims to create an interoperable environment with other members of the NFC Forum, in which the tags within smart objects and devices can communicate with each other using clearly defined and published interfaces and tag formats.

Nokia and Giesecke & Devrient have completed the foundation of a new company called Venyon to provide services to the NFC ecosystem to manage over-the-air (OTA) the consumers’ applications in the NFC devices. The OTA services from Venyon will be open and available for all stakeholders in the NFC ecosystem, including all NFC device vendors.

Nokia in 2006

• World’s leading manufacturer of mobile devices
• An estimated 36% share of the global device market
• Mobile device volume of 347 million units
• Net sales of EUR 41.1 billion
• Operating profit of EUR 5.5 billion
• 68,483 employees of more than 120 nationalities
• Strong R&D presence in 11 countries
• R&D investment of EUR 3.9 billion
• 21,453 people in R&D (approx. 31% of the Nokia workforce)
• 15 production facilities in nine countries
• Sales in more than 150 countries
• World’s sixth most-valued brand (ranked by Interbrand)

Nokia today

During our 140 year history Nokia has evolved from its origins in the paper industry to become a world leader in mobile communications. Today, approximately 850 million people from virtually every demographic segment of the population use Nokia mobile devices for communications, business, entertainment, and as luxury items. Nokia also provides equipment, solutions, and services for network operators, service providers, and corporations.

In 2006, Europe accounted for 38% of Nokia’s net sales (42% in 2005), Asia-Pacific 20% (18%), China 13% (11%), North America 7% (8%), Latin America 9% (8%), and the Middle East and Africa 13% (13%).

A converging industry

While mobile devices today are still used primarily for voice and text message communication, people also increasingly use them to take and send pictures, listen to music, record video, watch TV, play games, surf the internet, check e-mail, manage their schedules, browse and create documents, and more. This trend – where mobile devices increasingly support the features of single-purposed product categories such as music players, cameras, pocket computers, and gaming consoles – is often referred to as digital convergence.

In 2006, Nokia shipped a total of 39 million converged devices, approximately 140 million devices with an integrated digital camera, and close to 70 million music-enabled devices in 2006. This makes Nokia the leader in the converged device segment and the world’s largest manufacturer of cameras and digital music players