“We will definitely launch My Wallet in Romania next year. The exact date is dependent on talks with partners, so I cannot give you a more specific time interval,” Nemat says. In Romania DT controls Cosmote, no. 3 on the mobile phone market and Romtelecom – no. 2 on TV and landline internet, and no. 1 on fixed telephony, through OTE.
The “My Wallet” application has already been launched in Poland by the mobile telephony division of DT, where it already has over 13,000 users and it will also be launched in countries such as Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
The application, which only works on smartphones that are NFC-enabled, usually Google Android-powered terminals, such as those made by Samsung – allows users to make payments by simply touching the phone for a few seconds against a special payments terminal, which is also NFC-enabled. The application contains the data of bank cards from the financial institutions who agree to get involved in the project.
In Poland clients can now use only Mastercard cards issued by a few banks, but in the future the project will also extend to Visa cards.
(English version by Daniela Stoican)