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NTT Docomo QR code payment rolls out in Japan

01/23/201801/20/2018 Jesse Collins

The massive mobile carrier will allow its subscribers to make mobile payments at stores using quick response codes. The New NTT Docomo QR code is being rolled out across Japan, allowing the mobile carrier’s subscribers to use their smartphones to purchase products and services. The new system will allow the mobile devices to act like credit or debit cards for completing payment transactions, with verification through quick response code scans. The rollout is already beginning but customers will have access to the mobile payments as of April. Officials state that…

Mobile payments in Japan set to expand through MasterCard DoCoMo partnership

10/12/201210/12/2012 L. Green

The credit card giant and the largest Japanese wireless operator have announced their new deal. The largest wireless operator in Japan, NTT DoCoMo, has just announced its new partnership with MasterCard, which will soon be broadening the world of mobile payments with the new iD system that will be able to combine with the PayPass solution that is already widely in place around the world.. The service is expected to be launched during the first half of 2013’s fiscal year, which begins in April. The new mobile payments service will…