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18. i-Mode, wallet phones and mobile payments:

 

18.1 What are wallet phones?

Wallet phones are i-Mode, or EZweb or SoftBank/Yahoo-Mobile phones with a Felica chip integrated into the phone, where the Felica Chip can communicate securely via radio nearfield link with a reader/writer and also with a JAVA application within the mobile phone.

 

18.2 What type of functions can a wallet phone do?

Wallet phones can be used as train tickets, cinema tickets, for electronic cash payments, point reward cards, membership cards, for credit card payments and more. For a detailed report, download our wallet phone report or our mobile payment report, or our SUICA report.

 

18.3 When I have a wallet phone, can it contain many types of electronic money, or just one single type?

A wallet phone can contain many different types of electronic money, and several credit cards at the same time.

 

18.4 When I have a wallet phone containing different types of electronic money, how do I determined which money is used for payment?

When we use a wallet phone for payment which contains different types of e-money, and if the cash register can also accept different types of money, than the account/e-money used for a particular purchase is typed into the cash register by the cashier.


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