NFC card

China Unicom has only partnered with Shanghai Bus Company to allow its subscribers to pay bus fare. As forChina sell phones , its mobile payment service is merely serving the Shanghai World Expo 2010 by selling tickets to mobile phone users.
The main culprit for the slower growing pace of China Unicom's mobile payment service is the lack of terminals. As the Chinese telecom carrier's mobile payment service is based on the NFC technology which is widely used in Japan and South Korea, its subscribers have to replace their current handsets or buy a NFC card before getting access to the service. However, few subscribers are willing to abandon their old handsets for a mere signal service.
Prices of NFC-card-embedded mobileiphone clone  have yet to be confirmed. And the price of a NFC card is about tens of Chinese yuan.
In April 2009, China Unicom launched its NFC-based mobile payment service in Shanghai. And its NFC-card-embedded handsets were showcased at the GSMA 2009.
Being the same with China Unicom, China Mobile's mobileJAVA Phone  payment service is also back in the race, because its mobile payment service is based on RFID technology, making it even more difficult for it to popularize the service.