Six major French banks (BNP Paribas  Crédit Agricole and LCL  Crédit Mutuel-CIC  Groupe Caisse d'Epargne  La Banque Postale and Société Générale) as well as four mobile operators (Bouygues Telecom  NRJ Mobile  Orange and SFR) join forces in cooperation with MasterCard Worldwide and Visa Europe to launch at the end of November a large-scale field trial to test mobile contactless payment with 1 000 customers and 200 sales outlets located in the cities of Caen and Strasbourg