Isis adds four new payment system providers to its mobile wallet venture

NFC and mobile payments have been buzzwords in the industry for some time now, but paying for stuff with your smartphones still isn’t something even the most technologically-minded do very often. However, a new deal announced today by Isis (a joint mobile payment venture between AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and T-Mobile) might help change that. Isis now has four new payment system partners: VeriFone, Ingenico, VIVOtech, and Equinox. Under this new agreement, these four companies will integrate and support the NFC-based Isis Mobile Wallet platform in their current and future product offerings. These companies are a natural fit for Isis’ offerings: VeriFone is one of the biggest providers of point-of-sale payment solutions, and VIVOtech has already developed end-to-end NFC-based payment system. Still, while these partners make sense for Isis, their support doesn’t mean Isis will have any more luck finding users— the company announced a partnership with financial juggernauts MasterCard, Visa, Discover, and American Express last summer, but the service didn’t gain wide adoption after that deal.