In the back of a cab in Singapore I saw this:
Hurrah! Armed with two phones and several contactless cards I looked forward to my end of ride payment experience. When we got to the airport, the guy rang up the fare. The options on the terminal were “credit” and some others. He selected “credit”, but no contactless option was visible. So he went back and selected contactless (I can’t remember what the menu item actually was). An EZ-Link logo appeared on the screen but no Visa or MC logos. Just out of curiosity, I tapped a MasterCard NFC phone on the terminal. Oh dear.
He chose “Restart” but nothing seemed to happen. Gulp. I didn’t have any Singapore Dollars with me so I gave the poor chap a US $20 bill along with my profuse apologies. It looks like the NFC infrastructure needs a little more work in places.
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Agreed! Verifone must be somewhat irriated at the london cab fit out given success of Hailo app. Hope all well.