Mobile Wallet Now Offered In UK

If you live in the UK, great news because it seems that NFC technology is starting to appear in your country, brought to you by Orange and Barclaycard.

Some of the stores that have signed up for this system include Subway, Little Chef, Wilkinson, National Trust, McDonalds, EAT, Pret-a-Manger and some Boots stores. Later this summer it seems that you will now be able to pay your toll using the same system.

Giles Ubaghs, an analyst with Datamonitor, thinks that adoption of this technology might be slow. “It is an important first step but I think there could be a lack of incentive. Early adopters may like it for the novelty value but the majority just won’t see the point,” he said.

As it stands there are about 50,000 stores in the UK with NFC-enabled readers.