According to ABI Research, the reason why over 34 billion tickets will be sent to handsets rather than physical mailboxes over the next five years is because there is no single technology that facilitates the service. ABI says that of the tickets delivered over the 2014-to-2019 time frame, QR codes will represent 48 percent of all tickets, while NFC, which was once hailed as a revolutionary technology that would replace everything from physical wallets to door keys, will only account for 30 percent. The majority of new Android handsets support the technology and when Google first launched its Google Wallet Service in 2011, NFC was a key component. NFC's cause has also been damaged by Apple's decision not to support the technology in any way on any of its mobile devices, favoring Bluetooth and now Bluetooth Smart instead.



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