"Roland Perry" wrote:

In message
, at
04:46:51 on Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Neil Williams remarked:
But it'd be rather nice to be able to have one card
that works throughout the country. I suspect that card may be a
contactless credit or debit card once everyone has them.

Half the population isn't credit-worthy enough to have a credit card. Then
there's all the people with Electron/Solo.

Is there even a concept of "contactless debit card"?

Yes, very much so - for example, Barclays have been issuing their debit (and
credit) cards with Visa payWave as standard for some time now:
http://www.barclays.co.uk/Helpsuppor...P1242561764200

Barclays are very much the pioneers here - in May they said their cards
(both debit and credit) represented 85% of all contactless cards in the UK:
http://www.contactless.info/UpdateOnUkRollout.asp

Might depend on where you live - e.g. Lloyds TSB are now issuing contactless
cards as standard to all customers within the M25, but they're available on
request if you reside elsewhe
http://www.finextra.com/news/fullsto...wsitemid=22387
(The above story refers to TfL's decision to work towards accepting
contactless cards for fare payment purposes.)