Originally Posted by
GUWonder
One of my iphone cases has a built in card holder space, but the problem I encounter on some NFC-using public transport systems is that a NFC-using bank card messes up my ability to use the public transport system's NFC card when the NFC-using cards are back to back. And then I have to dig the appropriate card out and separate the cards in order for the system to process my payment.
The phenomenon you describe is known by TFL and their customers as CardClash. I was sent my new bank card earlier in the year and to my horror it was an NFC equipped one. Having heard the announcements about CardClash endlessly on the tube this would mean I could now suffer too with my annual travel card loaded on my oyster. I phoned my bank and was going to have a small rant about it but I didn't need or get the chance to. The extremely nice lady on the other end of the phone said it wasn’t compulsory to have NFC and she would arrange for me to be sent one without NFC. Someone did show me a wallet that had an RFID blocked section for those cards you don't want to be read by the tube/bus reader.