Samsung Pay has gone live in Canada – but only for a subset of customers using certain Visa cards from CIBC Bank.
A Samsung customer service representative
“These [Samsung Pay] services will be made available from the first week of November, 2016 in Canada. And, initially the service will be launched with CIBC Visa cards,” the company said in its reply.
Galaxy phone owners
Samsung did not provide comment by deadline.
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