Exploring Smart Card Adoption Challenges in the U.S. Over Future Years

Though more smart cards are in use in the United States than ever before, experts now say the technology may take at least four years to permeate the business or consumer sectors here and attain similar status as the ever-popular credit . . . Though more smart cards are in use in the United States than ever before, experts now say the technology may take at least four years to permeate the business or consumer sectors here and attain similar status as the ever-popular credit card.

One reason, experts point out, is that the American credit system has no mission-critical or "broken" process in need of fixing or improving. In the European domain, on the other hand, high telecom costs, a nearly nonexistent network infrastructure and centralized ownership of public utilities propelled smart-card adoption almost overnight.

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