Mohammad Kahn, President & Founder of ViVOtech, predicted during his presentation at the 2011 GSMA Mobile Money Sumit that between 30-70 million NFC phones will be released into the market this year, helped by support from tier one manufacturers such as RIM. By 2015, ViVOtech expects 1.5 billion NFC phones by the end of that year, with around a quarter of total handsets shipped supporting NFC technology. “NFC will change how we behave and react," Mohammad Khan.