AirPlus president of the Americas, Asia/Pacific and global sales Volker Huber said on Tuesday. The tool would enable users to make contactless payments
through mobile devices enabled with
near-field communication capability, and program managers would be able to set parameters around those payments. NFC-enabled smartphones and tablets—which include BlackBerry and Android devices but not iOS devices—are much more pervasive in Europe, Huber said, adding that the infrastructure for contactless payments also is much more deeply established there than in North America.