KDDI Announces EZ-Felica Wallet Cell Phone Service

From Wireless Watch again ...

WWJ Viewpoint :: New Tech & Services
WWJ Editors, 11 July 2005
Fresh off the newswire [press release in Japanese], KDDI has just announced that they are set to roll out wallet enabled handsets for their new "EZ-Felica" campaign scheduled to hit the Ginza sometime this September. According to the company, they are street testing the new BREW based application program which will offer digital cash, and various membership services such as loyalty points for registered users. But Wait.. thats not all, at the same time they also announced today (me-thinks those PR folks missed out on the Tanabata Festival this weekend) that from January 2006 KDDI will enable customers to use "Mobility Suica" in partnership with East Japan Railway Company (JR) as well. Wow.. it seems like only yesterday, actually it was December 2003, we reported "KDDI Joins FeliCa Bandwagon".

Note that "new BREW based application program which will offer digital cash, and various membership services such as loyalty points for registered users", i.e., a downloadable application.

Here is the press release press release and a rought translation in English rough translation into English