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Black cabs to support contactless payments next week, no more stopping at cash machines - Pocket-lint

As I have long maintained, taxis are the prosaic benchmark for a mass-market payment technology. If you can pay with it in a cab, then it’s a mass market technology.

Vegas Cab Card Reader

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From Monday 31 October, all black cabs will be required to have a contactless card payment reader, either fixed or handheld. Although from January 2017, cabs will need to have a card reader installed on the passenger side of the glass.

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