David Hanak This year we witnessed it right away of several propagation waves payment services Apple Pay. It is currently available in twenty-three countries around the world, and next year more countries are scheduled to join this network. It has been speculated for a long time that Apple Pay will visit neighboring Poland, and the Polish media today reported that Apple contacted several banking institutions there with an offer to cooperate on this contactless payment system.
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Polish server cashless.pl came with new information that, based on reports from several independent sources, it is possible to confirm that negotiations are currently underway to deploy Apple Pay in Poland. Apple is said to have approached every major banking institution in the country. Some of them rejected their offer, others followed up on the communication and currently everything is in the phase of negotiations, when the prices for the services provided (fees, etc.) are being decided. According to Polish sources, five banking institutions reached this stage, including Alior, BZ WBK and mBank.
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Apple reportedly contacted Polish banking institutions sometime in early December with a request to see if they would be willing to provide support for Apple Pay to their customers. If everything goes smoothly, heavy traffic should start during the first half of next year. As far as the infrastructure is concerned, everything needed is said to be in place and ready for the immediate launch of the service. The only thing waiting for is the negotiation of terms between Apple and individual banking institutions.
Spread of Apple Pay in the world (data as of 14/12/2017, Wikipedia):
If Apple Pay appears in Poland (which foreign media are pretty sure about), it will be the first of our neighbors where this Apple payment service will work. It is not yet available in Germany or Austria (much to the displeasure of local Apple users). There is no talk of the Czech Republic and Slovakia yet. As far as the Czech Republic is concerned, many interested persons have expressed in the past that all the necessary infrastructure is available here and the payment network of NFC terminals is also very widespread here. So one might wonder what else Apple is waiting for…
Source: Macrumors
https://www.letemsvetemapplem.eu/2017/11/14/apple-pay-dorazi-do-ceska-uz-velmi-brzy/
I don't know how it will be in Poland, but I have a fresh experience from Italy and it is not positive. Apple in IT does not accept regular payment cards that you can use to pay online. You have to have a special payment card issued to you with which you will have a deposit in the bank (it will not be linked directly to your account) and now the essential part ;-) the deposit must be at least 100% higher than your withdrawal :-D So I guess I will continue take out a card instead of a mobile phone :-D
I don't know how it will be in Poland, but I have a fresh experience from Italy and it is not positive. Apple in IT does not accept regular payment cards that you can use to pay online. You have to have a special payment card issued to you with which you will have a deposit in the bank (it will not be linked directly to your account) and now the essential part ;-) the deposit must be at least 100% higher than your withdrawal :-D So I guess I will continue take out a card instead of a mobile phone :-D
I don't know how it will be in Poland, but I have a fresh experience from Italy and it is not positive. Apple in IT does not accept regular payment cards that you can use to pay online. You have to have a special payment card issued to you with which you will have a deposit in the bank (it will not be linked directly to your account) and now the essential part ;-) the deposit must be at least 100% higher than your withdrawal :-D So I guess I will continue take out a card instead of a mobile phone :-D
What you write is complete nonsense.
Don't tell me about that nonsense, but try Südtirol Sparkasse, maybe you'll convince them :-D
Don't tell me about that nonsense, but try Südtirol Sparkasse, maybe you'll convince them :-D If you try to add a regular Visa or Mastercard, it will tell you that this card is not supported ;-)
Of course, there are plenty of instructions on the internet on how to use the British boon here as well (it works like a prepaid or debit card), but you will tell us your fairy tales about deposits...
The difference is that I live in South Tyrol and use those cards all the time ;-) Moreover, it's not a guide :-D just one fresh experience from our bank. As I wrote, nothing prevents you from explaining it to the specific bank :-D I also have a Monese bank (although not because of ApplePay), but it seems to me that using a British card in IT is a bit tricky :-O I think that Apple has some kind of agreement in every country and with every bank , but can you write me what specific experience and in which country do you have it? Maybe the agreements will be confirmed :-)
I understand that it's incredible for you ;-) because it was incredible for me too :-D It's as simple as that offered in our internet banking https://www.sparkasse.it/Tools/Landing-pages/Nexi-Apple-pay
I did it just as easily ;-) only after verifying the card it told me that ApplePay does not accept this card! When I came to the bank, I assumed that they would simply exchange my card for another one. I was already suspicious that the girl at the counter, who normally cuts the cards, took me to the head of the branch and said that there was someone interested in the Apple :-D I just listened to what I described to you here :-D
What is Apple waiting for? Nothing at all, I just cough on CR, I wouldn't look for anything in it.
https://www.letemsvetemapplem.eu/2017/11/14/apple-pay-dorazi-do-ceska-uz-velmi-brzy/
there was an article on letemsvetemapplem not long ago about a user from the Czech Republic who asked Apple when apple pay will be available (android pay was just launched...) and Tim Cook himself answered that "Very soon"
It was a fake email :D
I think so, but if Poland, why not Czechoslovakia ;-)
Only Apple knows that? And maybe he himself doesn't know. But it would be interesting if they launched Apple Pay in our countries before Germany???
There is nothing strange about that. Germany has always been very sensitive to bank and card association fees. After all, that's also why their own card association was created, so that they don't have to pay Visa and MasterCard commissions. These were not available at all until the general reduction of fees by EU regulations, and finding a store where they would accept Visa or MC was an almost superhuman task. For that reason, it is quite logical to expect that Germany will be one of the last countries where AP will reach, the fees will certainly not be negligible and the Germans are quite sensitive to it.