Starting October last year to February 2012, Telkom R&D team has been doing mobile NFC payment trial together with NTT Data and NTT Data Indonesia – a subsidiary of NTT Japan. This is the first in Indonesia, even though we all already know that this kind of technology is already very advanced in Japan for years. Unfortunately, there is no certainty when such technology will be widely implemented in Indonesia.
Mobile NFC payment is basically using our phones as a means of payment. Tools that can be associated with NFC can be a phone that has been integrated with NFC chip, SIM Card with NFC technology (or RFID in general) and even a help tool (bride technology) so that even ordinary phone can use it as a means of payment. Performed by two teams, the experiment covers all methods.
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