ARLA/CLUSTER: 1º Telemóvel com transceptor de HF incorporado.

[João Gonçalves Costa]

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Orange launch cell phones with HF transceivers

The phone company Everything Everywhere which operates the Orange and T-Mobile networks in the UK has announced its new handsets will incorporate HF transceivers operating on 13560 kHz*.

The handsets will enable instant cash payments to be made to a retail check-out point.

It is rumoured that the use of the HF frequency 13560 kHz for this application only happened because many years ago a portable games console used this frequency.

As a result transceiver modules for 13560kHz were readily available when engineers at a cell phone manufacturer were looking for a way to add a payments sytem to their phones.

BBC - Orange customers of Everything Everywhere get mobile payments
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12287009

RFID enables theft of credit card info
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/january2011/rfid_theft.htm



*RFID enables theft of credit card info

A Channel 3 News video shows how easy it is to grab peoples' Credit Card info using wireless technology.

Channel 3 News say:

"Thieves now have the capabilities to steal your credit card information without laying a hand on your wallet. It's new technology being used in credit and debit cards, and it's already leaving nearly 140 million people at-risk for electronic pickpocketing. It all centers around radio frequency identification technology, or RFID."

Watch the Channel 3 News Video "Electronic Pickpocketing" at

http://www.wreg.com/news/wreg-electronic-pickpocketing-story,0,5636726,full.story

In the British Isles and Europe, RFID uses inappropriate frequencies such as 433.920MHz in the readily accessable Amateur Radio band or 13.560MHz on HF just below the Amateur Radio 20m band. Given the system is designed for very short range communications, a matter of a few feet (metres) it should be using frequencies above 2.45GHz.

Fonte: Phil ZL2OWL
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