China: Unicom Puts NFC Phone on Sale In Shanghai
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China Unicom’s Shanghai branch in September 2009 put a Chinese NFC phone on sale carrying a Chinese-made NFC chip and preloaded with Shanghai’s contactless transit application. The telco has sold about 5,000 of the phones, according to a source, which would make it one of the few actual NFC rollouts to date. Users can tap to pay fares on subways, buses, taxis, and other modes of transport in Shanghai’s large transit system.
Unicom, which plays second fiddle to giant China Mobile, had held an earlier mobile ticketing trial in Shanghai and has also introduced mobile payment and ticking using non-NFC phones in Chongqing, China. Unicom is working with Chinese domestic payment network China UnionPay and also, reportedly, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, or ICBC on possible m-payment launches. While China Mobile is pushing through its own nonstandard contactless SIMs for mobile ticketing and payment for the World Expo in Shanghai, Unicom, at least in Shanghai, has been working with actual NFC phones. And it apparently intends to move to phones supporting the single-wire protocol, which would enable it to put NFC applications onto the SIMs it issues and have them work in standardized NFC phones.
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