INSIDE Contactless recently said that its MicroRead® platform has been selected as the preferred NFC chip for China’s Chongqing Province contactless mobile payment commercial deployment. With a population of more than 31 million, this initiative represents the first large-scale commercial mobile payment deployment in the world.

Since June of this year, INSIDE has worked successfully with China Mobile Chongqing Company and Just In Mobile to deliver 2kpcs NFC phone-embedded MicroRead chip. This is the first mobile contactless payment project to link a Chinese mobile operator with banks in a manner that enables Chinese consumers to pay for goods in several thousand merchant locations using their mobile phones.

The application is stored on the phone’s SIM card, which is connected to the INSIDE’s MicroRead® chip, using the SWP (Single Wire Protocol), which INSIDE has developed in conjunction with Gemalto. SWP has now been adopted by the entire SIM card industry, following the GSMA’s support in its Near Field Communications (NFC) technical guidelines white paper, which was published in April 2007.

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