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`September 5, 2006
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`JR East to expand functions of Mobile Suica service
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`Tokyo
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`East Japan Railway Co. said Tuesday it will expand the functions of its "Mobile Suica" online payment service in October and
`make the service available on Vodafone K.K. cellphones in December.
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`The firm, also known as JR East, launched the Mobile Suica service in January to allow cellphones to register and be used as
`Suica rechargeable prepaid cards, in a bid to increase the number of users to one million by March 2007. But the number at
`the end of August was limited to 110,000.
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`JR East said it expects the expansion of functions to help increase the number of users.
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`The expansion of functions will enable cellphones to register as Suica cards even without special credit cards and allow payments
`via cellphones to be charged to credit cards or accounts at three major banks -- Mizuho Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.
`and the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ.
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`JR East also said it has tied up with nine companies in addition to Yahoo Japan Corp. to allow the Mobile Suica service to
`cover payments for Internet shopping.
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`Vodafone cellphones that can offer the "Vodafone live! FeliCa" service will be used for the Mobile Suica service initially. When
`Vodafone changes its name to Softbank Mobile Corp. on Oct. 1, the Vodafone service will be renamed "S! FeliCa."
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`The Mobile Suica service is already available on cellphones of two other major mobile phone service providers -- NTT DoCoMo
`Inc. and KDDI Corp.
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`Company: NTT DOCOMO INCORPORATED ADR; KDDI CORP; NTT DOCOMO INC; SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING
`CORP; MIZUHO TRUST AND BANKING CO LTD; BANK OF TOKYO LIMITED (THE); EAST JAPAN RAILWAY CO
`LTD
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`Industry: (Transportation (1TR48); Railroads (1RA98); Land Transportation (1LA43))
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`Region: (Japan (1JA96); Far East (1FA27); Asia (1AS61); Eastern Asia (1EA61))
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`Other Indexing: (BANK OF TOKYO; EAST JAPAN RAILWAY CO; JAPAN CORP; JR; KDDI CORP; MIZUHO BANK;
`MOBILE SUICA; NTT DOCOMO INC; SOFTBANK MOBILE CORP; SUICA; SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORP;
`VODAFONE) (FeliCa)
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