October 27, 2003

Sony, NTT DoCoMo Team On MOble Contactless Payments

NTT DoCoMo and Sony have agreed to form a joint venture to develop new services based on mobile phones equipped with Sony's contactless IC Card technology, FeliCa, according to InfoSync.

The new company, to be called FeliCa Networks, will develop the technology for a new IC chip, tentatively named "mobile FeliCa IC", that will integrate mobile phones.

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