Taiwan operators roll out NFC-based mobile payments

Taiwan’s mobile operators have jumped on board to support the country’s largest mobile commerce platform, which has the backing of 32 banks, three payment processing institutions and EasyCard. It also has had the support of Visa and Mastercard since early December. Chunghwa Telecom this week was the first operator to launch mobile payments using the NFC-based system. Taiwan Mobile, Far EasTone and Asia Pacific Telecom are expected to roll out the service soon.