 The project expected one million cards per month for start, but that fell to 100,000 per month just before they gave up the project.In 1998 Philips licensed MIFARE Classic to Hitachi Hitachi licensed MIFARE products for the development of the contactless smart card solution for NTT's IC telephone card which started in 1999 and finished in 2006.In the NTT contactless IC telephone card project, three parties joined