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"Mobile FeliCa wallet phones" (Report, pdf-file)

Summary

Wallet phones are mobile phones equiped to include bank cards, credit cards, house keys, company access control IDs, electronic cash, train tickets and many more functions. Wallet phones in principle can take over all functions which our wallet has.
Wallet phones enable mobile operators to enter new industries, especially the payment and credit card industries. For this reason wallet phones represent innovation and disruption for established industries, such as credit cards.
This report describes the technology and the eco-systems of wallet phones, and describes several application case studies richly illustred with photographs and descriptions of how wallet phones present value to consumers, and how wallet phones impact established industries.

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Table of Contents

  • Executive Summary: wallet phones
  • The concept: What are wallet phones and why
    What are wallet phones?
    Origin
    Suica's 20 year development history
    concept: i-mode phone plus FeliCa smartcard as wallet phone
    Why wallet phones
    Wallet phones: driving cell phones forward to the next stage
    mobile phones: stages of development
    implications for the mobile carrier
  • Hardware, software platforms and systems
    Wallet phone sysstems overview
    Concept: i-mode phone plus FeliCa smartcard as wallet phone
    Felica and Inside view of Felica (with pictures of cut open FeliCa cards)
    Inside view of Felica wallet phone showing FeliCa IC chip and antenna system for near field communication (NFC)
    FeliCa and standards, NFC communication standards
    Technical data of selected FeliCa cards (anticollision type, ordinary and with magnet stripe for non-contactless read/write)
    FeliCa compared with other IC-Cards
    Memory limitations
    NFC standards
    Felica, Mifare, and near field communications (NFC)
    Felica and Mifare, SUICA vs OYSTER Card
    SONY and NXP joint venture
    Security and privacy
    Security - key issues
    Security - solutions
    Privacy
  • The Eco-System
    The mobile Felica wallet phone eco-system
    Business models and eco-systems
    How many wallet phones are there (graphics showing wallet phone numbers for DoCoMo and competing mobile operators for 2004-2008 with projections and estimations towards 2012)
    Felica Networks Inc - The Company
    Felica Networks Inc - JR East investment
  • Applications and case studies
    DoCoMo's entry into the credit card and consumer loans business
    Wallet phones create a new layer in the credit card business landscape - overview of the credit card landscape after introduction of wallet phones and mobile credit transactions
    DoCoMo's investments in mobile credit business development
    Sice of Japan's credit card payment industry (credit card payment volume for 1990 with projections to 2010)
    Market shares of Japan's major credit card issuers
    Implications
    Graphics and summary of DoCoMo's major recent investments to develop mobile payments business
    DoCoMo's iD platform
    DoCoMo's iD platform - usage statistics and analysis
    DoCoMo's DCMMX mobile credit brand
    Quicpay contactless payments
    Electronic cas ahd electronic / mobile payments in Japan
    Electronic cas ahd electronic / mobile payments landscape (overview, analysis with graphics)
    Facts and analysis of electronic cash in Japan
    Impact on traditional coins and money (with statistics of coins in circulation (total volume, cash value data for 2004 - 2005)
    Requirements for ecash
    Legal requirements for ecash
  • Edy - electronic cash
    Overview
    Edy - timeline
    Number of Edy e-cash cards issued (data for 2000-2007, with projection to 2010)
    Number of Edy transactions per month (data for 2000-2007, with projection to 2010)
    Number of Edy transactions per month per card (data for 2000-2007, with projection to 2010)
    Cash register (POS) with Edy reader/writer
    National introduction of e-cash
    Edy charger unit for retail use
    Edy in felica wallet phones
    Edy gift
    Bitwallet KK
    Electronic banking and Edy
    Wallet phones and ATMs
  • Wallet phone applications and case studies
    Preview service January - June 2004
    Service after introduction from July 10, 2004
    Partner network
    Initial 11 services
    Additional 23 services from August 2004
    Cash register (POS) with Edy reader/writer
    Case study: Bic Camera
    Case study: Yodobashi Camera
    Case study: Karaoke
    Case study: electronic door key
    Case study: Coca Cola Cmode
    Case study: Copy machines
    Case study: game parlor
    Case study: event ticketing
    Case study: customer relationship management at convenience stores
    Case study: ticketing and customer relationship management at an Airline (All Nippon Airways ANA)
    Case study: phones as train tickets - SUICA and PASMO
    Case studies: Townpocket, i-touch, and other touch to activate services
  • Competitive market place, alternatives to FeliCa wallet phones, global standards and interoperability
    Wallet phones as a competitive tool, competitive landscape and first-mover advantage
    EZ-Felica
    Vodafone KK's wallet phone concept
    Mobile Felica and Mopass
  • Summary: Wallet phones

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