DOCOMO began international mobile payments from phone to phone

The mobile operator NTT DOCOMO announced that the first in Japan began to make direct payments from your mobile phone to the numbers of foreign operators.

This service will be available on i-mode compliant phones through the service SMART Money, and the first foreign operator to act as a partner, will be the Philippine mobile operator PLDT (Philippine Long Distance Telephone Compan).

Money can also be sent outside of Japan to the beneficiary's bank or other financial institution in Brazil, South Korea and China, and Philippines - the four countries, whose residents account for 80% of all foreigners, who are now in Japan.

For other countries the opportunity to receive payments via mobile terminals will be introduced, as promised DOCOMO, in the near future.