The launch is set to open up some 1.2 million MasterCard PayPass acceptance locations in approximately 50 countries to iD users beginning February, 2014.
Payments with iD/PayPass are set to be available to DOCOMO subscribers using smartphones equipped with a contactless chip for Osaifu-Keitai (mobile phones with wallet functions) via near field communication (NFC). Current iD users can tap their smartphone over a reader device to make payments at MasterCard PayPass affiliate merchants outside Japan using either local currency or yen.
The iD/PayPass payment feature uses PayPass technology, a worldwide payment standard deployed by MasterCard via contactless IC chips.
In Japan, DOCOMO subscribers are set to be able to use its proprietary iD system for mobile credit payments via some 500,000 iD reader devices offered by affiliate merchants.
NTT DOCOMO is a developer of technologies for NFC mobile payments, mobile GPS, mobile TV, mobile assistance, environmental monitoring, smart grids and others.
In recent news, MasterCard has appointed Emerging Markets Payments (EMP), an electronic payments processing company in the Middle East and Africa region, as a principal member in Egypt. Through this, EMP will be able to sponsor issuers in Egypt and other African markets as affiliates.
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