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Mobile wallets not catching on with Japanese commuters

April 15, 2007

Cardtechnology.com: East Japan Railway commuters could download train tickets and recharge their Mobile Suica e-cash purse over the air to their phones, which they can tap to pass through transit gates or make purchases. But 13 months after the much-anticipated launch of Mobile Suica, a contactless mobile-wallet phone in January 2006 only 350,000 customers had signed up for the service.
 

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