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Cell phone sticker for contactless payments wins award

March 8, 2010

Convego Air Mobile, a sticker for contactless payment from Giesecke & Devrient (G&D), was a winner at this year’s CIT Golden Card awards in the category of “most innovative payment card,” according to a company press release. Organized by IIR, the Institute for International Research, the Golden Card awards set out to recognize excellence in the smart card industry. The awards are given in conjunction with the CIT Congress, Spain’s leading smart card event, held annually in Madrid.

Convego Air Mobile is a sticker which enables the user to pay contactlessly. The sticker contains the full functionality of a credit or debit card. Once the thin and pliable foil has been affixed to a cellphone or PDA the device can be used to pay bills at all cash terminals and ticket machines supporting the worldwide contactless MasterCard PayPass standard.

“Convego Air Mobile adds an ideal new dimension to credit and debit card services. By affixing the sticker to their cellphone, users can pay small amounts contactlessly, which means they do not have to carry as much cash on them,” said Axel Deininger, head of the payments division at G&D. “We expect Convego Air Mobile to speed up the market for contactless payment methods."

The Convego Air Mobile payment sticker measures 43 x 33 millimeters (1.7 x 1.3 inches) and can therefore be affixed to any recent cellphone, smartphone or PDA. The surface of the sticker provides enough space for customer-specific designs and optical personalization by laser engraving.