Japanese Company Launches Mobile-enabled Credit Card

By Jo Best, Silicon.com

Japan’s largest mobile operator, NTT DoCoMo, has launched its own credit card brand, iD, which will allow customers to make payments using their handsets.

A number of handsets will offer the credit card functionality, which will see some DoCoMo customers swipe their phones over a dedicated reader in shops and have payment deducted from a credit card linked to the phone.

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