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Mobile Payment Trials Expand

Dec 15, 2006, 3:08 PM by (staff)

Cingular and Citibank are starting a mobile payment trial in New York City. Citibank Mastercard users will be offered a Nokia phone with an NFC chip tied directly to their account. They will be able to pay for McDonalds, movies and even subway fare using the handset. Cingular, Nokia, and Motorola have previously run trials in south Florida, Atlanta and most recently, Dallas. There the trials included 7 Eleven stores and prepaid subscribers. Despite the number of trials, no US carriers have committed to launching contactless payment on their phones.

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queensyankee

Dec 16, 2006, 10:53 AM

Already Done

in Japan. You can use your phone at vending machines and so forth. It'll be nice if and when we catch up with their generation of technology.

sweetsoprano

news like this does NOT sit well with me at all... 👀 👀 👀 Just a matter of time till they try to implant that chip in your forehead/right hand... 😕

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grapeape

Dec 15, 2006, 7:19 PM

LUNCH~

I would like a #5 - SUPER SIZED.... with a Sprite... and i am going to charge it on my Sanyo 8300 please!!!!! 🙂

Cochalo

Too much technology 4 me man. what happened to the time when you used to pay with goats. LOL 😉

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SprintLynchburg_VA

I'm sorry we don't accept Sanyos, We do accept all major credit cellphones (Motorola, Nokia, Samsung,LG, and Blueberry)

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SkillciaX

Like what happens if you let your kid use your cell phone?

Will cellphones have some type of pay pass as payment taken from your account?

What about if your phone is stolen, and you can't contact your bank about it to change your account number?...
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cilvzwagent

Dec 16, 2006, 10:00 AM

Just another way....

For customers to try to say they didn't "Authorize" these charges on their bill. 🙄

Of course you didn't authorize it, you gave it to someone else to use, and they authorized it for you! 🤣

0siris

cilvzwagent said:
For customers to try to say they didn't "Authorize" these charges on their bill. 🙄

Of course you didn't authorize it, you gave it to someone else to use, and they authorized it for you! 🤣

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