February 25, 2005

Vodafone Japan to introduce RFID'd mobile phones in October

NTT DoCoMo first introduced mobile phones with embedded RFID FeliCa chips last summer.

Then, consumers started using them for buying movie tickets, paying for arcade games, paying at convenience store chain AM/PM, buying soda, etc. DoCOMo expects to sell 10 million FeliCa mobile phones by the end of March 2006. Also, it will be possible to use them as train passes next January when the mobile SUICA service starts.

What will Vodafone and KDDI, other major mobile carriers, do? Vodafone just announced that they will introduce RFID'd mobile phones (using FeliCa as well) this coming October.

KDDI once announced that they will also introduce RFID'd mobile phones autumn this year.

reBlogged from RFID Japan

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