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Seattle's University Bridge still operates on Comp...
Why would I want to have to pay mobile when I can carry a much more durable and less valuable piece of plastic that performs just as well and never runs out of battery?
DanBC
on March 13, 2014
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Ignore pay mobile - why stick with magnetic stripe and unchecked signatures when you could have chip and pin?
akjj
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Because the cost of upgrading the infrastructure to do chip and pin has always been more than the cost of fraud associated with magnetic stripes.
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Well, and also that the people who get stuck with the bill for fraud are not the same people who pay for the infrastructure.
dllthomas
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Is that actually the case? Who do you see making up each of those groups?
kalleboo
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Then why was the transition done in Europe? Was there more fraud there?
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