ViVOtech Powers 1st Australian NFC Pilot
ViVOtech announced that its ViVOnfc infrastructure software for NFC mobile phone payments is being used by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia in its 1st NFC mobile phone payment launch in conjunction with MasterCard at the MasterCard Masters Golf Tournament. This deployment marks Australia's 1st NFC mobile phone payment pilot and supports both credit and prepaid mobile phone payments. NFC phones that are given away at the golf tournament launch can be used throughout the country for payment at any contactless-enabled store.
“We're really excited to be the 1st Australian bank to trial contactless payment technology using NFC,” said Lynda McMillan, Executive Manager, Credit Cards Issuing, Commonwealth Bank. “ViVOtech's NFC payment solution was selected because of its easy-to-use wallet interface for users and the company's proven and highly-secure OTA provisioning infrastructure to easily manage credit and debit card downloads.”
The Commonwealth Bank is the 1st Australian bank to introduce a contactless payment solution like PayPass to the Australian market and is the 1st institution to introduce NFC-enabled mobile phone payments into the country. For this trial programme, ViVOtech is supplying Commonwealth Bank with its full line of NFC-enabled payment products including:
•A Commonwealth Bank-branded ViVOwallet mobile phone user interface supporting easy downloads of PayPass credit and debit cards
•ViVOnfc Issuer Server that provides OTA loading and personalisation of card details into the mobile phones
•ViVOnfc Control Server to provide OTA management of wallet loading and personalisation
 “We are pleased to have been selected as the provider of the NFC mobile phone payment and OTA provisioning software technology for this significant NFC payment trial in the APAC region,” said Michael Mullagh, CEO, ViVOtech. “Today, our vision of a truly mobile society is one step closer to reality as the launch of this programme will allow Australian consumers to use their mobile phones for credit and debit payments at contactless merchant locations across Australia.”
This trial marks ViVOtech's entry onto another continent, expanding its ViVOnfc trial customer base across the globe. The ViVOnfc suite of products has been used in over 16 pilot programmes worldwide and enables mobile phone payments, promotions and marketing programmes. The solution was recently named as a finalist in the prestigious Sesames Award for Software in 2007 and is ready for the upcoming commercial roll-outs of mobile phone payments expected in 2008.
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