10 million of mobile wallet users at KDDI au

Contactless payment solutions continue to penetrate mobile phones in Japan at the accelerating rates. KDDI au registered 5 million mobile wallet users in March 2007, now they report 10 million users or 35% of their total subscriber base is actively using mobile phones to make all kind of purchases you do in your daily life. Thanks to the adoption of FeliCa, a flavor of Near Field Communications standard, by all major carriers the POS locations don’t have a headache of prepping different readers in order to process the mobile phone transactions. FeliCa rules in Japan. Expect the similar solutions to be deployed by AT&T, maybe even in 2008.

Source: KDDI au (Japanese)