Financial Times: Battle over mobile payments intensifies

Published: 30 November 2011

Source: The Financial Times

CCS Insight was quoted in this article about Google, PayPal, Visa and leading mobile phone operators are all rushing to announce mobile payments services, in a battle to establish a foothold in a lucrative new market.

“It is really basic but it does what it is supposed to do. You just pass the phone in front of the terminal, and when you have made the payment it shows you a little receipt on your screen, which is quite nice,” says Digantam Gurung, analyst at CCS Insight, who has been among the first to start using Orange’s QuickTap payment system in the UK.

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