Sarwoto Atmusutarno (heri susanto/vivanews)

VIVAnews – Telkomsel multifunction card that would later be used as a means of payment will design. Sarwoto Atmosutamo, President Director of PT Telkomsel declared this year, the achievement of the new technology in which mobile phones can be used to pay for it.

"We will increase our T-cash facilities are non-contact," said Sarwoto in seminars Broadbrand as drivers of economic growth in the Hotel Borobudur, Thursday 12 May 2011.

Telkomsel has previously so-called with Telkomsel Cash (T-Cash) of a service that allows customers to bring mobile phones to use (MSISDN) conduct transactions such as purchases, payments, and so on.

The use of this card, however, is limited to the seller that a partner of T-Cash. Forward, Sarwoto explained, this card will be a kind of BCA Flash card. The difference, this map in the form of a chip on the map of mobile phones.

It would also be used to Transact such payments anywhere in the supermarket, to the pembayran Highway, the purchase of food and drink and others.

This product has been developed since six months ago and will dilincurkan on this year. "The name of the details have yet to be announced, which of course is the name of the contactless," said Sarwoto.

Systems for contactless payments, as quoted from Wikipedia, also known as "touch and go" or "wave and pay" itself is already present in the financial sector. Generally used on credit cards, debit cards, smart card or other device mounted radio frequency identification (RFID).

Chip is implanted in a map that allows the user to draw cards their only enough on the sensor in the payment engine. This system makes it possible that the payment process faster doubled in comparison with conventional systems.

Yanto Santoso, Corporate communication Telkomsel added, is currently the product still in the process of development. This will in the future, a transaction as a ATM.

This was later map Telkomsel will function like saving money in the phone number, the transaction happens when something spend.

"The money that we have entered into a mobile card. This card is later grew to become a valid credit card, said "Yanto. "This is also one of the payment methods approved Bank Indonesia," he said.