Articles tagged with: Mobile Payments and Sim

Contactless Smart Card Market Expected to Weather the Storm Caused by Economic Uncertainties

With Asia Pacific being a highly diverse geographic region with dissimilar market conditions, participants in the contactless smart card market should be prepared for varied reactions to the economic downturn. While countries that have not yet achieved mass deployment of contactless smart cards could experience further delays, more advanced countries such as Japan and South Korea that possess strong contactless infrastructure and high penetration rates are unlikely to slow down drastically.  more

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Visa Makes NFC Mobile Point-of-Sale Payments Commercially Available

Credit card merchant, Visa has announced the launch of the world's first commercial Visa mobile payments service for point-of-sale transactions using Near Field Communications (NFC) technology. The service marks the first time consumers can purchase an NFC-enabled mobile device off the shelf and use that device to make Visa payWave-enabled transactions at the point-of-sale instead of using their payment card.  more

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Visa Works with GSMA to Extend Access to Mobile Financial Services

Credit card merchant, Visa has announced plans to work with the GSM Association to advance the delivery of mobile financial services around the world. As part of the continuing collaboration between the two organizations, the GSMA has selected Visa as a provider for mobile money transfer solutions globally, and is working to execute an agreement to formalize participation terms.  more

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Polish Mobile Values Services Market Up by 22% in 2008

In its latest report, research and consulting firm PMR estimates that as at the end of 2008 the mobile value added services market in Poland was worth approx. PLN 930 million (US$265 million), up by almost 22% year on year. Between 2009 and 2012 the market is expected to grow further, driven mainly by the development of new value added services that broaden the range of applications of mobile phones - mobile payments, mobile television and mobile marketing.  more

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