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America's Isis crisis in NFC mobile payments

Since Google launched its Google Wallet earlier this week the Isis crew have been out in full force talking about Isis, which probably won't get to market until in Salt Lake City and Austin until early-mid 2012, and that is just in a couple of test cities at that. If you have never heard of Isis let us give you some back story. Isis is a joint venture formed by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon where the three mobile network operators have come together to go into the NFC mobile payments business together, effectively controlling most of the market in the United States. Each mobile network operator intends to charge companies for having an NFC payments capable app stored on a subscriber's phone and then Isis will act as a trusted service manager that provisions security apps being installed and acts as part of the payment process. If you would like to know more about what a trusted service manager is and does, check out our post here.

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Isis and C-SAM could spell more trouble for Google Wallet

Isis selects C-SAM to provide NFC mobile wallet management SDK which could give Google Wallet a run for its mobile money

Isis has selected C-SAM to provide the joint venture with its mobile wallet management platform and comprehensive SDK. C-SAM offers a comprehensive set of services that enables NFC functionality via an SDK that includes full wallet management. In fact, the offering is so robust it would be comparable to Margento's offerings in terms of sheer amount of services that are supported but with one all important addition, which is that C-SAM supports NFC. Isis will have access to C-SAM’s highly scalable mobile wallet management platform and comprehensive SDK bundled with over twenty-five reference services.

“C-SAM’s vision has been to recreate a leather wallet metaphor on mobile phones,” said Sam Pitroda, Chairman and Founder of C-SAM. “We are excited about the agreement with Isis and confident that our mobile wallet will provide additional convenience, flexibility and security to Isis’ customers.”

C-SAM capabilities that Isis could benefit from

Isis is likely to employ many of the services offered by C-SAM which will give the joint venture between AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless a significant portfolio of services that will allow it to compete with rivals like Google Wallet.

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