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<p>Subway will soon allow customers to pay for their sandwiches with the tap of a smartphone.</p><p>The sandwich franchise chain said Tuesday it will launch contactless NFC payments across more than 26,000 restaurants in the U.S. starting Oct. 1.</p><p>The company is working with Softcard, a mobile payments joint venture operated by the big four cellular networks, to launch the system, but a Subway spokeswoman said that any payment app based on the NFC standard will be accepted. That includes the soon-to-be-launched Apple Pay and existing services from Google Wallet, PayPal and other vendors.</p><p>The rollout will be one of the largest in the U.S. to date. When Apple CEO Tim Cook announced Apple Pay last week, he said there were 220,000 stores across the country that would accept the system. The Subway announce increases that by more than 10 percent in a single step.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2684372/subway-to-accept-nfc-payments-starting-in-october.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Subway to accept NFC payments starting in October
