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Japanese mobile provider aims to make phone payments hands-free

October 3, 2007

GlobeandMail.com: NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan's largest mobile phone operator, hopes to one day sell a handset that lets you make electronic payments while it stays in your pocket. Using mobile phones to pay for goods electronically is common in Japan, the world's biggest market of third-generation mobile users, where phones are swiped at ticket gates or vending machines to pay for train fares or drinks. DoComo's prototype cell phone would allow you to do all that without taking it out of your pocket.
 
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