Public transport system will be first to support contactless payments.
Isis was created last November by AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile USA, with the aim of putting a mobile wallet inside an NFC chip that sits inside the SIM card or phone software.
The Salt Lake City pilot system will be deployed with the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) and other merchants.
The UTA already has many contactless terminal readers compatible with NFC-ready credit cards.
It's a significant announcement, since Isis hadn't previously set a date or location on roll-outs.
But still the bigger question remains – will the public embrace mobile NFC when multiple incompatible solutions are being proposed?
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In addition to Isis, Sprint has confirmed its own project, Google is working on one with MasreCard and Citi, and Apple is known to be hiring a team to develop some kind of NFC service.
Then there's phone availability. At present just a handful of phones support NFC, the most high profile being Nexus S.
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