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laffen Posts: > 500

I downloaded and tried the MasterCard PayPass Locator from the Market earlier today. It was not much to locate for me here Europe. The app had received a few negative critics about the accuracy of the locator. Especially the location of McDonalds and closed down PayPass places was not up to date.

I also notice that you must be signed in with a Google account to read the user reviews. Strange
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Posted: 2011-09-20 20:43:25
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Marly Posts: > 500

On 2011-09-20 18:28:07, laffen wrote:
I, like most Norwegians seldom carry cash these days. More than half the population usually pays with debit card even for transactions as low as 7 Euro. I'm not in a hurry to jump on the NFC bandwagon as all places I do my shopping already has a working smart-card payment terminal with a simple 4-digit code verification.

We have the same system in the Netherlands and you can pay almost everywhere with these cards. But, even though we've got them from our banks, so everybody could use them from the start, it took several years before the smaller shops supported this, because the terminal and the network-connection it needs, cost money.
Now with NFC, only a few phones and not every network support it, so how do you convince, in this time of crisis, the owner of a small shop, to spend money for yet another terminal, when, in the beginning, only a handful of his customers will be able to use it ? Which means, that we're only able to pay with NFC in large stores, supermarkets, etc., so we still have to take our debit-card with us.

But NFC might be useful in countries, where they don't have a payment system like ours.

[ This Message was edited by: Marly on 2011-09-20 20:27 ]

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Posted: 2011-09-20 21:23:17
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Bonovox Posts: > 500

I been with Co Operative bank for years now they are excellent. But not sure if they will take this on as they are a smaller bank. I suppose it could be very handy & perhaps will become the norm soon on smartphones
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Posted: 2011-09-20 21:27:44
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