Originally Posted by
cooker
You have just added it. I actually think that is inevitable, so almost a no-brainer predicition. As the article I posted in your thread on transit payment methods indicated, cellphones in Canada can now have a special SIM card installed that also functions as a smart card for financial transactions. I suspect phone manufacturers or Telecom networks will soon make that standard issue.
As someone who lives in Tokyo mentioned in the other thread, it is being used there.
How widespread it will be in a short time frame like 5 years will be the question.