…While McDonald’s Tests NFC in Austria

McDonald’s and supermarket chain Merkur will test an NFC payment system developed by Austrian mobile network operator A1 and Paybox Bank in Austria, NFC World says.

Of note: the service is not based on EMV ‘chip and pin’ technology, NFC World says, nor does it utilize Visa’s PayWave or MasterCard’s PayPass offerings.

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