Mass-NFC solution specialist armed to capitalize on NFC take-off.

France, Marseille – 20th Dec 2010 – Think&Go NFC, the leading mass-NFC solution provider, today announced that it has secured funding with two Business Angels and OXO, the main shareholder of Avenir Telecom.

Think&Go NFC will use this new investment to accelerate the development of its future-proof solutions for mass-NFC deployment – over 300 phones, NFC native phones and NFC enabled phones, including iPhone, Android, Blackberry, … - to be used in Retail, Finance, Transport, Sport, … and also to expand its sales and support network internationally by opening representative offices in Paris and Singapore. Think&Go NFC is based in Marseille and has its R&D Centre in Sophia Antipolis, to better support its customers and technology partners.

“We are very honored to welcome OXO in our Capital” says Vincent Berge, CEO of Think&Go NFC, ”NFC has the power to enable new services because it gives simple gesture driven access to complex functions in phones and phone peripherals. The timing for our collaboration with Avenir Telecom – OXO subsidiary - could not have been better as it was followed by the news that operators in France plan to distribute at least half a million NFC phones in 2011. Working in synergy with Avenir Telecom will allow us to build new phone based Value Added Services and Solutions in B-to-B-to-C markets, and explore deployment of NFC driven consumer oriented services on phones and with a growing variety of NFC powered peripherals”.

“We are very excited to join the Think&Go NFC venture, and explore the mass-deployment of NFC services” says Jean-Daniel Beurnier, CEO of OXO and Avenir Telecom, “our driving force has always been to add value to phones and accessories for our customers, so NFC is a promising key technology that we want to be part of, through Think&Go NFC”

The first prototypes of services are expected to be shown at Mobile World Congress 2011, in Barcelona.