West Tower 16F, Gate City Osaki, 1-11-1, Osaki, Shinagawa-ku,Tokyo, 141-0032, JapanNews Release
September 8, 2016

FeliCa Networks Announces Support for Apple Pay
Offering an Easy, Fast & Secure Way to ride transit and pay withiPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus and Apple Watch Series 2 in stores, apps and on the web

Tokyo — September 8th, 2016 — FeliCa Networks, a leading worldwide technology
and solution provider of FeliCa and NFC service platform, is pleased to announce its
FeliCa technology will support Apple Pay, an easy, fast and secure way to ride transit
and make mobile payments that is private and convenient with iPhone 7, iPhone 7
Plus, Apple Watch Series 2 throughout their day, including in transit, in stores, withinapps and on the web.
FeliCa Networks integrates its FeliCa technology and platform with global NFC
standards to support FeliCa based transit and payment services for Apple Pay.
"FeliCa Networks has been providing the security, comfort and convenience of 'touchand go’ lifestyles as a social infrastructure platform provider for more than 12 years,
since we developed mobile FeliCa technology and introduced mobile contactless
services in 2004," said Masahiro Soga, President of FeliCa Networks. “We aredelighted to bring the technology to iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plusand Apple Watch Series

2 to offer an easy, fast and secure way to pay and ride transit with the support ofFeliCa’s proven infrastructure platform.”

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[About Apple Pay]
Apple Pay is easy to set up. Users can add major credit and prepaid cards to Apple Pay.
In stores, Apple Pay will be accepted anywhere Suica, iD and QUICPay are accepted.
Users will continue to receive all of the rewards and beneﬁts offered by their cards.
To pay with iD or QUIC Pay in stores, tell the cashier you would like to pay with iD orQUICPay, then simply place your iPhone7, iPhone 7 Plus near the contactless reader,and with the touch of a finger on Touch ID, the payment is complete. When paying
with your Apple Watch Series 2, double-click the side button before holding it near thereader. You can pay with Apple Pay in stores with iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus and Apple
Watch Series 2.
Security and privacy is at the core of Apple Pay. If your iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch isever lost, you can use Find My iPhone to put your device in Lost Mode to suspend
Apple Pay, or you can wipe your device clean completely. You can also stop the ability
to make payments with Apple Pay on iCloud.com. When you use Apple Pay, yourcredit card number will not be shared with the merchant.
When you use a credit or prepaid card with Apple Pay, the actual card numbers are
not stored on the device, nor on Apple servers. Instead, a unique Device AccountNumber is assigned, encrypted and securely stored in the Secure Element on yourdevice.
For more information on Apple Pay, visit: www.apple.com/jp/apple-pay/[About FeliCa Networks, Inc.]
FeliCa Networks, Inc., established in 2004, provides a wide range of technologies andsolutions for NFC service platform. The technologies are applied to radio controller,
secure application module, security server. In addition, FeliCa Networks offers
solutions and services such as middleware, security domain management,personalization, and application service. The cumulative number of mobile FeliCa IC
chip shipment exceeded 282 million as of July 2016. A great variety of over 100
services available on those phones, not only payment and transportation but also
other advanced services, is based on FeliCa Networks technologies.
FeliCa Networks Web Site: http://www.FeliCaNetworks.co.jp/en*FeliCa is the contactless IC card technology developed by Sony Corporation.

*FeliCa is a trademark of Sony Corporation.

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