Quick Tap, from Orange and Barclaycard, allows Orange mobile users to use their phone to pay for purchases up to £15.
This is first system of its kind in the UK, although there has been much talk of late about contactless and mobile payments. Contactless readers are currently in 50,000 shops across the country, including branches of Pret-a-Manger, McDonald's and Subway.
Customers who want to use the service will need to have a Quick Tap enabled handset. The scheme has launched with a special version of the Samsung Tocco Lite but more Quick Tap-ready handsets are expected to follow soon. Pippa Dunn, Orange's vice president, said:
“It’s going to start a revolution in the way we pay for things on the high street."
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