Gemalto NV is participating in a Near Field Communication payment pilot in Japan that launches this quarter, the France-based technology provider announced Jan. 18.
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The company is working with SoftBank Corp., a Japanese telecommunication and media company, Gemalto noted in a news release.
“Japan is the most progressive country in the world when it comes to using the mobile phone for contactless services,” Tan Teck-Lee, Gemalto Asia’s president, stated in a press release. “The advent of NFC in Japan will enable SoftBank Mobile to massively deploy mobile contactless services in payments and other domains like transit, loyalty programs or couponing.”
