Japan?s Top 3 Mobile Carriers Agree To Support Global NFC Standard

Japan, one of the most advanced mobile nations in the world, doesn't want to be a "cell phone Galapagos" anymore, at least when it comes to payments over NFC. Paying with cell phones is already ubiquitous in Japan, but now the country's top three telcos (NTT Docomo, KDDI au, and SoftBank Mobile) are trying to switch from the Nippon-only Osaifu Keitai system to the Type A and Type B NFC standards used globally. The problem for the carriers is that Osaifu Keitai ("Portable Wallet"), which is based on Sony's FeliCa RFID smart card technology, isn't compatible to the Type A and B NFC standards. Docomo, KDDI, and SoftBank have set up the so-called Japan Mobile NFC Consortium to coordinate the domestic adoption of those standards with "service suppliers and handset manufacturers".

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