• credit crazy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Isn’t moble data the stuff your phone uses too communicate like the main reason why people don’t use their phones outside in my home state is due to how there’s a lot of dead zones where it can’t communicate no calls, texts or Internet connection. When travailing the only thing your phone really can do is play angry birds and take pictures because the environment is basically forcing your phone to be on airplane mode

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, if you’ve got no internet then you can’t do all the nice internet things.

      Pretty sure you’d need internet (wifi would do) to set up Apple/Google Pay on your phone, but I don’t think you need internet when out and about paying for things.

      Apple seem to have no problem with it.

      https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8204935

      Looks like the Google one needs to phone home every so often, but should work for “a limited number of transactions”. Whether that’s by value or by transaction count I don’t know. It certainly seems to be instant whenever I use it, which makes me think it doesn’t rely on internet access.

      https://support.google.com/wallet/thread/177978646/do-you-need-data-to-use-google-pay?hl=en

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        1 year ago

        You’re correct. I’ve made payments with my phone and watch lots of times without any WiFi or data connection.

        Only the payment terminal needs to be connected.