NFC: Cities in France with more than 200 000 inhabitants

1. Paris, Paris, Île-de-France: 2 211 297
2. Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur: 851 420
3. Lyon, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes: 474 946
4. Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées: 439 553
5. Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur: 344 875
6. Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire: 283 288
7. Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace: 272 116
8. Montpellier, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon: 252 998
9. Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine: 235 891
10. Lille, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais: 225 784
11. Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne: 206 655
Source (in French): http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_communes_de_France_les_plus_peupl%C3%A9es

NFC: French Government support

20 M€ for NFC projects in French Big Cities ( > 200 000 inhabitant):
Cf. Article (in French)

After First NFC cities projects:
Cf. Article (in French)

After Nice, 9 French Cities target NFC usages:
Bordeaux (and Pessac)
Caen (via Manche Region)
Lille
Marseille
Nice
Paris
Rennes
Strasbourg
Toulouse

Source (in French): http://blog.grandesvilles.org/tag/nfc/

NFC Players in France: Contactless Mobile Services Forum Attendees List

Contactless Mobile Services Forum (i.e. Forum SMSC)
had its Annual Meeting at Bercy (French Governement).

FSMSC (i.e. Forum des Services Mobiles Sans Contact in French) Annual Meeting gathered most of the French Contactless & NFC Ecosystem at Ministère de l'Economie, des Finances et de l'Industrie in Paris, Bercy.

107 people from the following 81 organizations were there.

Here is the Company Attendees List (Version: 31st of March 2011):

Accenture
ADCET
AFSCM
Adelya
Ad'just
AEPM
AMGVF
Banque de France
BNP
Bouygues Telecom
BPCE
Caisse des Dépôts
Cap Digital
Carrefour Banque
CNR-RFID
Commedition
Connecthings
Crédit Mutuel
Dassault Systèmes
DGCIS
Digital Airways
Egylis
Escal Consulting
EUROKAPI
FFTELECOM
Forum TV Mobile
FSMSC
Gart
Gemalto
Global Payment Exchange
Greenwich Consulting
Groupement des Cartes Bancaires
GS1
HEMERA
Ingenico
Inside Secure
INTELLIGERE
Keolis
La Chaîne Techno
La Grande Epicerie
La vie du rail
Laser
Mairie de Marseille
Manche Numérique
MasterCard France
Ministère de l'Ecologie, du Développement durable, des Transports et du Logement
Ministère de l'Economie, des Finances et de l'Industrie
MobiLead
MobiNear
Moneo Payment Solutions
Monetech
Morpho (Sagem Orga)
MV2 Group
Nokia
Nouveau Paris IDF
NRJ Mobile
NXP Semiconductors
Oberthur Technologies
Obraz Photo
Orange France Telecom
PayByPhone
Pôle SCS - Solutions Communicantes Sécurisées
Pôle TES - Transactions Electroniques Sécurisées
Prosodie
PubliNews
RATP
Rennes Métropole
RIM - Research in Motion
Samsung Electronics
SFR
SNCF Proximités
Spirtech
Think&Go NFC
Transdev
Université Paris I
Velvet Consulting
Véolia Transport
Ville de Nice
Visa Europe France
Web Escape Agents
WIMA