Visa Launches NFC Service in Malaysia

Malaysians can now use their Nokia (NYSE: NOK) 6212 to make near-field Visa payments – just wave your phone in front of a sensor and bam, instant buy in over 1,800 shops. Local carrier Maxis and financial group Maybank have both partnered up with Visa to make this happen, and is hopefully the first in many deals to come. This if the first we’ve seen of NFC technology with Visa, but there’s still very little hardware that supports the magic-wand payment method. Visa has been gunning aggressively for mobile as of late, chewing through SMS notification legalities, and tapping into the Android Market, and with any luck, they’ll push their NFC initiative to other countries soon.

[Visa via Mobile Burn]