NFC World is reporting that handset maker Nokia is working with the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority to develop a contactless ticketing system using NFC technologies. 

According to the NFC World post, the pilot phase for the program will begin later this year on commuter rail lines.

Nokia's head of NFC, Jeremy Belostock, told NFC World: "The MTA is looking at different ways of presenting value on a card, like the Oyster card [the contactless card used for U.K. transportation], but moving that value into the network."

Belostock also told NFC World that Nokia will continue to move forward with NFC on its smartphones running Symbian as well as "cloud-based mobile ticketing and payment." The post says a software update for the new Nokia 603 enabling mobile payments via NFC SIM cards would happen later this year, with secure NFC payments coming to Symbian phones early next year.

"Our first job was and is to get NFC out to consumers," Belostock told NFC World. "The second task is to see where the opportunities are with the different operators out there."

Belostock hedged on whether the same push for NFC would happen on Nokia's Windows smartphones, saying it's too soon to discuss future products.

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