RIM co-chief executive Jim Balsillie used his keynote presentation at this year’s GSMA Mobile World Congress to outline how he believes mobile operators and consumer electronics manufacturers can work together. “It’s about constructive alignment between carrier and consumer electronics companies to create transformative experiences for consumers where you have sustained prosperity for the carrier as a services platform,” he stated. Key to this, Balsillie claimed, are his company’s efforts in carrier billing for app services as well as the introduction of NFC technology. “Many if not most BlackBerry devices throughout the year will have NFC in them,” he revealed. “The carrier has an exciting future as a payments services platform.”