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Google trumps Apple for Australian mobile payments, but for how long?

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imageApple Pay launched in the US in 2014, but has yet to gain traction in Australia.Monica Davey/EPA/AAP

After failing to come to agreement with Apple to enable mobile phone payments, six of Australia’s biggest financial institutions this week signed on with Android Pay. The service will go live in Australia in the first half of 2016.

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