The wireless carrier Cellular South Inc. is testing a service called WirelessWallet that allows customers to use their mobile phones to make card payments.
The test involves more than 75 mobile phone customers and almost 50 retailers in Memphis and in Jackson, Miss. Cellular South is based in Jackson.
The service uses handsets from Kyocera Wireless Corp., a San Diego subsidiary of Kyocera International Inc., that include near-field communication technology, allowing them to be used like contactless credit cards.
The phones use payment software from ViVOtech Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., and are compatible with vending machine card readers from USA Technologies Inc. of Malvern, Pa.
In May, Cellular South began supporting a peer-to-peer payments service from Obopay Inc. of Redwood City, Calif., that is designed to run on cellular phones.
