The couple lived there for decades in a small mobile home, and Poland enjoyed gardening and clearing brush from his property.

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The SIM-based NFC solution will utilize the US bank's ClickandBuy service for processing and will be available to T-Mobile customers, rolling out to Poland in Q3 of this year and Germany in 2013.

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Within Europe, critics say the U.K. has gone from being at the front of the pack in earlier mobile technologies to trailing badly behind, alongside countries such as Poland, Romania and Slovenia.

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At 47, he has worked as an executive at RAM Mobile Data in the U.K. and run telecom companies in Pakistan, Poland and Croatia.

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