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by sjwright 3605 days ago
It really isn't the same.

A May 2015 survey by RF Intelligence Group, called ‘Global Payments Evaluation Study’, based on 32,000 respondents in 16 countries found that 66 per cent of Australians are aware that they own a contactless payment card and 53 per cent have made a contactless transaction. By contrast, just 14 per cent of Americans own a contactless card and only 9 per cent have used one for a payment.

http://www.bpaybanter.com.au/news-views/why-do-australians-l...
2 comments
dalore 3605 days ago
Australia had EFTPOS which was a way of using your debit card to buy stuff, way before the VISA network really took off.
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Alphasite_ 3605 days ago
I don't live in the US, I mean in most developed economies contactless is fairly common place.
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kuschku 3604 days ago
Well, take Germany. Every store supports contactless, but MasterCard refuses to offer EC Cards with contactless, and wants to move customers to credit cards (which earn them far more profit – over 20 times the transaction fee).

Oh, and we don’t get Android Pay either.

As a result, the experience is horrible. And for every single bit US corporations are to blame.

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