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SIMalliance, the industry association that includes most major SIM card vendors, has just published its annual data on SIM card shipments. The most significant points highlighted by SIMalliance include: SIM alliance members shipped 4.9 billion SIMs in 2017, The total available SIM market is estimated at 5.6 billion units, representing a 2.75% growth vs. 2016, Growth is unevenly spread between geographies: China still has a 25.5% year-on-year volume increase while Europe is no

Wagamama, a restaurant chain in the UK specializing in pan-Asian cooking, is now implementing a new way to improve the payment flow: they remove the payment step altogether! It has already been identified for long that the cash register represents an obstacle for the fluidity of commerce. In many cases, in physical commerce as well as in online shopping, consumer abandon their cart when they experience a difficulty in completing their payment. However, many in the payment ind