Press Trust of India
New Delhi: Handset maker Nokia and online
payment services provider PayMate have joined hands to develop a solution which
allows user pay bills by just touching NFC-technology enabled handset on a
point.
Nokia, PayMate have partnered to
develop a solution that will allow users pay bills by just touching their
phones.
NFC technology is being used for smartcards of metro
rail in Delhi where a passenger just touches at a point to pay fare. This
technology is also being for paying toll taxes where a card reader installed on
toll gates automatically deducts toll charges from a moving vehicle which has
toll tax token fitted in to it. "The NFC (near field communication) technology
being quite popular in tech-forward countries such as South Korea and Japan, we
are proud to have collaborated with Nokia on the largest deployment of NFC touch
points in India," Ajay Adiseshann, Founder and MD of PayMate said in a
statement.
PayMate and Nokia are looking to extend this
experience make Nokia NFC enabled device user to conveniently and securely check
and pay for the products they wish to purchase. "Customer could purchase an item
by simply tapping their NFC enabled device against an NFC enabled menu or a tag
on an item they wish to purchase," the statement said. It added that NFC device
could be linked via PayMate to a payment mechanism such as their bank account or
a prepaid account and the customer could then authorise the payment directly on
to their mobile phones.
"NFC thereby helps in contact-less payments by
transforming the mobile phone into a digital wallet, thus eliminating the need
to carry cash and credit cards," the statement said.
"To create awareness around this technology, we have
deployed NFC chips with unique content across almost 1,000 Nokia outlets in the
country. The consumer response to the 'Just Tap' with NFC feature on our
smartphones has been very encouraging," Nokia India's Director Marketing Viral
Oza said.
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