"In this all digital, all the time world, dial-up POS is a tenacious bastion of analog communications. Simplicity, adequacy and custom are powerful forces keeping that digital world at bay. ISO's processors and merchant level sales organizations are going to have to push hard on the total cost of ownership proposition to convince Mom and Pop that it is time to make use of broadband Internet connection they already have. There are enough countervailing forces to suggest that the pushback from payments-weary merchants will remain strong." George Peabody Director, Emerging Technologies |
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