NFC payments are five to ten years away from mainstream adoption and on the crossover between the 'Peak of Inflated Expectations' and the 'Trough of Disillusionment', according to this year's Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. NFC as a whole is expected to hit the mainstream more quickly, but is still two to five years away from maturity.

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1. Gartner’s Hype Cycle places NFC at ‘Peak of Inflated Expectations’
2. Gartner: Mobile payments growth is slower than expected
3. Gartner predicts 448m mobile payments users in 2016

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