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Gemalto Enables Commercial Mobile NFC Transport and Payment Roll-out in Hong Kong

PCCW-HKT, leading Hong Kong mobile operator, deploys FeliCa on Octopus Mobile SIM as next generation mobile wallet

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Gemalto announced it has worked with PCCW-HKT, one of Hong Kong’s major mobile network operators and Octopus Cards Limited (OCL), a leading contactless smartcard payment service provider in the world, to bring the security and convenience of mobile NFC ticketing to its subscribers, as well as a number of additional value added NFC services. Gemalto’s UpTeq multi tenant NFC SIM1 will enable PCCW-HKT subscribers to load the Octopus payment functions onto their mobile NFC device for...

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