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Old Mar 5, 2019, 9:14 am
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Originally Posted by mikesyr18
If you split the current companies, acceptance rate will be the same as it is now since the infrastructure is already there.
I'm fairly sure it doesn't work that way, at least not as easily as you think. It's like saying that everyone with new Verifone or Ingenico terminals supports Apple Pay because Target and Best Buy do.

Plus, it's possible that those other four will end up going under or consolidating anyway, bringing us back to where we started.
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