It is no secret that the really active introduction of new technologies in widespread use usually requires the participation of market leaders. Chance to become a widespread technology appeared in payments through mobile devices with support for Near Field Communication (NFC). Visa and Samsung announced a global alliance, which brings together the expertise in payments Visa and Samsung lead the mobile market .
Under the agreement, financial institutions, plans to implement the program of mobile payments, will use the service Visa Mobile Provisioning Service for secure download account information on Samsung devices with support for NFC. In addition, Samsung will install on your device with support for NFC application Visa payWave.This application allows you to perform contactless payments, conducting device near a reader.
NFC is a promising technology contactless payments. According to analysts ABI Research, in 2017, will be shipped to 1.95 billion devices with this technology. Alliance Visa and Samsung was the first of its kind alliance between manufacturers producing smartphones with support for NFC, and global payment system.
Work Visa payWave can see in action visitors the Mobile World Congress 2013, which opened today in Barcelona.
Source: Visa
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