Taiwan

"It is an all-in-one digital wallet that lets customers choose which way they want to pay," the Taiwanese carrier's Joseph Kuo has told NFC World. "The wallet supports multiple credit and bank cards, loyalty cards, coupons etc, and I think Chunghwa Telecom would like to see a big development in both technologies."  More

The decision, taken yesterday by Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission, to grant conditional approval for Taiwan's five carriers and transit card issuer EasyCard to set up a national TSM joint venture for NFC payments and ticketing... More

Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission has given the go-ahead for transportation card issuer EasyCard and the country's five carriers to form a joint venture company to deliver NFC payments and ticketing services — provided the partners comply with a number of conditions designed to ensure a competitive environment is maintained. More

Phone maker HTC is set to announce a mobile payments partnership with Taiwan's Cathay United Bank, transportation card issuer EasyCard and MasterCard, according to Taiwan's Central News Agency. "The PayPass card will become Taiwan's first... More

Taiwanese mobile network operator Chunghwa Telecom has teamed up with transportation card operator EasyCard, chip maker NXP, and MasterCard to launch an iPhone case that enables users to make NFC payments in stores and on... More

China's leading location-based social service is distributing NFC window stickers to more than 3,000 merchants in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Taipei and Hong Kong. More

Taiwanese financial institutions should jointly develop a unified NFC-based mobile payment platform says the Taiwan-based handset maker, following the announcement of its first NFC phone and a deal with China's CUP payments network. More

The Taiwanese mobile network operator is to field test an innovative NFC device that supports both card emulation mode for payments, ticketing and customer loyalty applications and tag reading for mobile marketing applications and communicates with the user's phone via Bluetooth. More

The Taiwanese government has agreed to fund a project to develop a suite of NFC applications for Android devices, PC World reports. Mobile network operator Chunghwa Telecom and contract electronics manufacturer Cheng Uei Precision Industry... More