Japanese Company Launches Mobile-enabled Credit Card

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12 September 2006 at 10:20 a.m. ET

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By Jo Best, Silicon.com

Japan’s largest mobile operator, NTT DoCoMo, has launched its own credit card brand, iD, which will allow customers to make payments using their handsets.

A number of handsets will offer the credit card functionality, which will see some DoCoMo customers swipe their phones over a dedicated reader in shops and have payment deducted from a credit card linked to the phone.

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