Australia: Telstra and NAB Hold Pay-Buy Mobile Trial
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Small three-month trial, held among employees of the organizers, was one of about a dozen Pay-Buy Mobile projects backed by the GSM Association. The bank’s Visa payWave application was stored on the SIM card Telstra issued. Users could tap to pay at a handful of merchant locations for purchases of A$35 (US$23.28) or less.
Australia’s largest mobile operator, Telstra, later released results indicating 95% of trial participants said they would be “likely or extremely likely” to use the NFC technology in the future. That is even a little higher than the rosy results recorded in surveys following other NFC trials. But one wonders if it had anything to do with the fact that the trial participants were all reportedly drawn from the ranks of Telstra and National Australia Bank staff.
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