Everything Everywhere To Launch Mobile Payments

Everything Everywhere, the marketing venture between U.K. mobile operators Orange and T-Mobile, has unveiled plans to roll out a mobile payments service by the second quarter of 2011, and is powered by Barclaycard.

The new service will allow consumers to use their mobiles to make purchases at over 40,000 stores.

The platform uses SIM cards and bill build on Everything Everywhere and Barclaycard’s ongoing partnership, which has already produced a co-branded contactless credit card and the forthcoming Orange Cash pre-paid contactless card.

Users will initially be able to purchase items up to the value of £15 by simply swiping their mobile phones across an electronic reader.

The phone uses “Near-Field Communication” technology in addition to the SIM modules.

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Everything Everywhere To Launch Mobile Payments