Masako Robertson
Portelligent
The "Mobile Wallet," or as it's known in Japan, "Osaifu Keitai," is gaining substantial traction in
the Japanese market, as customers of leading wireless carriers NTT DoCoMo, KDDI, and Softbank come to use their cellular handsets to make retail payments, as commutation passes, and even as a means to secure electronic "coupons."
This Portelligent Tech Perspective provides some background on the underlying FeliCa technology, surveys the evolution of infrastructure and services for the "Mobile Wallet" in Japan, and gives an overview of related activity elsewhere in Asia, in Europe, and in North America. Also provided is information on handsets enabled for mobile payments, drawn from Portelligent product teardown reports.
Portelligent analyzes over 100 consumer electronic products a year using its rigorous "product teardown" methodology, and captures this teardown data in its Product Profile Database, which now holds key metrics, IC content, and bill-of-materials data on over 600 products analyzed over the past eight years. For more information, please visit the Portelligent Web site. |
