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Paybox, ViVotech to deliver NFC-enabled platform |
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German mobile payments services provider paybox partners with US-based provider of NFC m-payments ViVOtech to offer a NFC platform for remote and proximity m-payments in e-commerce and m-commerce scenarios. The paybox-ViVOtech platform allows subscribers to pay simply by tapping their NFC-enabled handset at a NFC-enabled smart poster, a sign or billboard or any other form of advertising to make payments or receive a content download, bus ticket, or access to a local Wi-Fi hotspot.
The new service combines the paybox Money Mobiliser product for m-payments and ViVOtech’s contactless ViVOpay NFC readers and commercial grade over the air (OTA) provisioning infrastructure software ViVOnfc that supports NFC mobile payments. The integrated platform provides an end-to-end framework, under which mobile applications can be launched and accept both proximity and remote payments. Paybox and ViVOtech will present their joint technology offering at the paybox hospitality suite during the Mobile World congress 2008 in Barcelona.“ViVOtech is excited to be working with paybox to extend payments from the point of sale to almost any location. This flexibility allows consumers to use their phones in new lifestyle changing ways, offering convenience, speed and secure payments,” said president and founder of ViVOtech Mohammad Khan. “Fully integrating paybox technology into out platform is a natural fit and a major benefit to merchants and consumers,” Khan added. |
