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China Unicom Selects Gemalto in First NFC Payment Service in China

Gemalto UpTeq NFC SIM to secure the Unicom Merchants Bank mobile wallet

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Gemalto announced that its UpTeq NFC SIM card has been selected by China Unicom to secure its mobile wallet program. China Unicom is the nation’s second-largest wireless operator, with more than 220 million subscribers, in which more than 60 million are on 3G. The Unicom Merchants’ Bank mobile wallet is the first NFC payment service being launched in China, in a joint collaboration between China Unicom and China Merchants Bank (CMB) for the mobile wallet itself. China Unicom’s mobile wallet ...

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