NFC TIMES Exclusive – With Apple showing no signs of backing off its policy of restricting use of its NFC technology to Apple Pay only, banks and payments services providers are looking for ways to enable their iPhone-packing customers to pay with their phones in stores, especially in countries where Apple Pay hasn’t yet launched.
Among the leaders in trying one of the iPhone-NFC alternatives–Bluetooth low energy, or BLE– are banks and payments services providers in Denmark.
The Danish banks and payments companies also use QR codes as an option, but they appear to have a clear preference for BLE as a way to go around Apple’s NFC restrictions and to enable mobile payments on iOS devices.