Taiwan’s largest telco has already trialed NFC several times, but wants more tests with real NFC SIMs supporting the single-wire protocol and also to test its own trusted service manager with its ID application. The wallet trial could serve as a prelude to an NFC launch. The telco, however, probably won’t commercially launch NFC until the proposed  NFC joint venture it is part of gets approval from the Taiwanese government, observers say. That proposed venture consists of all five of Taiwan’s mobile operators, including Taiwan Mobile and FarEast Tone, as well as the country’s major contactless-payment scheme, EasyCard Corp.