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Apple Pay to Launch Outside US Next Week
- FierceWireless Europe, Wednesday, July 8, 2015 12:30 PM
Apple Pay is widely expected to arrive in the UK on July 14 according to information from a number of retailers, reported 9to5Mac.The move confirms Apple's announcement in June at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) that the UK would become the second market after the U.S. to be able to use the NFC-based contactless payment service. Canada is expected to be next in line later this year. Apple Pay was first unveiled with the launch of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus last year, and is set to compete with existing contactless payment services. It's becoming a crowded market, with services such as Android Pay also in the pipeline. Mobile operators in the UK already provide their own mobile payment services: Vodafone UK has the Vodafone Wallet service, EE offers Cash on Tap and O2 UK also recently took over the Weve payments joint venture.
