Japan’s DoCoMo to Support PayPass for Roaming Customers but isn’t Finished...
Oct 12 2012 By: Dan Balaban Japan’s largest telco, NTT DoCoMo, has begun to make a key piece of its strategy for NFC known, announcing deals with MasterCard Worldwide and South Korea’s KT Corp. to...
View ArticleThe Year Ahead for NFC: Commercial Launches at Hand
By: Dan Balaban The 10-year anniversary of the official birth of NFC came and went quietly on Sept. 5, 2012.Related Content: The Year Ahead for NFC: Major M-Commerce Rollouts Unlikely Until 2013As...
View ArticleVendors Shipped 30 million NFC SIM Cards in 2012, Led by Demand in Korea and...
By: Kiona Smith-Strickland SIM manufacturers shipped 30 million NFC SIM cards in 2012, 70% of them to mobile operators in South Korea and Japan, with Europe beginning to ramp up, the SIMalliance...
View ArticleJapanese Video Game Retailer Rolls Out NFC-Enabled Game Boxes
By: Kiona Smith-Strickland Video game retailer Codemasters Japan is rolling out NFC-enabled tags on game packages in Codemasters Japan retail outlets, Australia-based NFC tag marketing company Tapit...
View ArticleJapan Continues Transition to NFC with Planned PayPass Terminal Rollout, TSM...
By: Dan Balaban Japan is continuing its transition to standard NFC, with plans by large acquirers to deploy more than 400,000 point-of-sale terminals supporting MasterCard PayPass and confirmation by...
View ArticleJapanese Telcos Launch NFC Couponing Service in Korean District of Tokyo
By: Dan Balaban Japanese mobile operators KDDI and Softbank Mobile have launched an NFC couponing service in a popular Korean district of Tokyo, implemented by an affiliate of South Korea’s largest...
View ArticleThe Year Ahead for NFC: Telcos Finally Ready to Roll Out, But Alternatives to...
Jan 7 2014 By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive: As 2014 unfolds, the NFC ecosystem appears as unsettled as ever, with embedded secure chips expected to compete with NFC SIMs in several markets to...
View ArticleJapanese Telcos Sell at Least 14 Million NFC Devices, Though Few Places to...
By: Dan Balaban Japan’s three major mobile operators had sold nearly 14 million standard NFC-enabled smartphones and tablets as of January, according to the Mobile NFC Association, as the country...
View ArticleJapan’s NFC Device Rollout Tops 20 Million, Though Still Few Places for...
By: Dan Balaban Japan’s rollout of phones and tablets supporting standard NFC technology has topped the 20 million mark, with Japan’s three major mobile operators deploying the handsets with NFC...
View ArticleTop 10 Misses for NFC in 2015: SIM-Based NFC Falls Further; Apple Pay...
Jan 13 2016 By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive– While 2015 was arguably the year that saw the most important rollouts yet of NFC technology, led by Apple Pay, 2015, like past years, was marRelated...
View ArticleReality Check: MasterCard Misses Big on Goal to Bring International NFC...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive – Three years ago, in June of 2013, MasterCard announced it would “deploy a target” of 410,000 MasterCard PayPass-enabled point-of-sale terminals, to be rolled out...
View ArticleSource: Apple Plans to Support FeliCa and NFC in Japan, Like Other OEMs, but...
Aug 26 2016 By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive Insight – Apple plans to support proprietary FeliCa technology as well as NFC in its iPhones sold in Japan like other handset makers in Japan have been...
View ArticleApple Pay Launch in Japan Opens Up More Opportunities for Third-Party Vendors
By: Istvan Fekete NFC Times Exclusive – As Apple moves closer to launching Apple Pay in Japan, the FeliCa-based service is opening up business opportunities for third-party technology suppliers,...
View ArticleApple Pay Launch in Japan Features New Tokenization Providers
By: Dan Balaban and Istvan Fekete NFC Times Exclusive Insight – Apple Pay launched Monday in Japan as Apple’s 12th market for its mobile payments service and the first to support closedRelated...
View ArticleHow It Works: Android Pay Launches in Japan Without HCE, Backed by One...
By: Dan Balaban and Istvan Fekete NFC Times Exclusive Insight – Google is using an embedded secure element to enable users to tap to pay in its latest Android Pay market, Japan–the first time since...
View ArticleSony Launches Support for FeliCa Technology on HCE Devices, Though Few...
By: Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive – Japan’s Sony Corp. is supporting host card emulation with its proprietary FeliCa contactless technology, which could enable service providers to avoid the need...
View ArticleJapan Begins Overdue Move to Standard NFC Acceptance
By: Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Japan was the first country to roll out contactless-mobile payments–starting in 2004–but it still does not accept standard, internationally interoperable...
View ArticleLaunch of Apple Pay in Japan Boosts User Numbers for Mobile Suica, but Most...
Jun 9 2018 By: Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive – HANOI, Vietnam: Since Apple Pay launched in Japan in the fall of 2016, the number of users for the Mobile Suica transit and retail payments application...
View ArticleMore QR Code Payments Services Planned for Japan, Home of Original...
By: Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Japan, the first market globally to adopt contactless-mobile payments, in 2004, with a technology similar to NFC, will see its two largest convenience...
View ArticleJapanese Megabank Mizuho Plans to Launch New Digital Currency Soon for Mobile...
By: Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Japanese megabank Mizuho will reportedly move forward with its planned launch of a new digital currency to enable QR code-based mobile payments in stores...
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