Tokyo Taxis To Start Accepting Felica-based Cell Phone Payments
Digital World Tokyo reports on plans by three of the largest taxi fleet operators in Tokyo to begin accepting payments made by cell phones equipped with Sony's Felica chip and using either BitWallet's Edy system or East Japan Railway's Suica system.
After a slow start e-money is rapidly gaining pace in Japan. Edy, which is backed by Sony, NTT DoCoMo and a number of other financial institutions, can be used in around 31,000 places in Japan including convenience stores, restaurants, department stores and karaoke centers.In addition to dedicated Edy cards the feature is also built into some credit cards, airline mileage cards, office identification cards and recently cellphones. BitWallet says about 17 million Edy cards have been issued, of which about three million are in phones.
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