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Old Nov 26, 2016 | 10:52 am
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Originally Posted by RedLight2015
If European trains are still on swipe, I will say that EMV on trains in the US will probably never come.
The snack bar on trains in Norway use EMV and Contactless. I had to wait several minutes to pay because we were in a tunnel and the card reader couldn't get a cellular signal, but Norwegian passengers could pay without a problem, so I think the local cards were processing offline while my US card needed to go online. Another passenger with a US debit card also had to wait.
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