Chin Hua Yak said
I am currently in China for about a month. Payment via phone is very common in China but that does not ruled out cash payments.
The problem with S'pore is it wants to accept "only either this / or that" solutions ... lol. So it ended up being very slow.
Not only that, u need a handphone number tagged on for many transactions in the Banks...for verification codes. And now their banks are moving on to "face recognition" for verification of transactions.
MY REPLY
The "either this or than" mindset is prevailent in Singapore. It is our national culture.
If I suggest mobile phone payment, many people will argue that the edlerly people have no mobile phone or cannot use it. These people cannot see that 50% can pay by mobile phone and the other 50% will pay by cash. As time goes by, more people will pay by mobile phone and it may eventually reach 90%.
I am currently in China for about a month. Payment via phone is very common in China but that does not ruled out cash payments.
The problem with S'pore is it wants to accept "only either this / or that" solutions ... lol. So it ended up being very slow.
Not only that, u need a handphone number tagged on for many transactions in the Banks...for verification codes. And now their banks are moving on to "face recognition" for verification of transactions.
MY REPLY
The "either this or than" mindset is prevailent in Singapore. It is our national culture.
If I suggest mobile phone payment, many people will argue that the edlerly people have no mobile phone or cannot use it. These people cannot see that 50% can pay by mobile phone and the other 50% will pay by cash. As time goes by, more people will pay by mobile phone and it may eventually reach 90%.
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