The MTS Pay system was introduced. It will allow contactless payment with iPhone cards of any banks

MTS launched the MTS Pay service, which will allow you to pay for purchases with cards of any banks. At the start, only Mir cards are supported, but in the future they plan to add support for other payment systems. You can link up to 5 cards to MTS Pay at the same time and switch between them with one gesture.

Everything should work in much the same way as in Apple Pay and Google Pay: the MTS service acts only as an intermediary, while the user saves the cashback and other bonuses of his card. The application will be released in the App Store in the near future, it will be enough for online payment.

Contactless payment on iPhone requires a Pay Tag sticker. From similar developmentsTinkoff», «Alphas” and other banks, it is distinguished by the ability to link a card of any bank. It will be enough for the user to select the main card in the application in order to pay in stores by putting the smartphone to the terminal.

The first batch of stickers will go on sale in early February, but only in Moscow and St. Petersburg. From March, it will be possible to buy Pay Tag in Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Chelyabinsk, Samara, Ufa, Rostov-on-Don, Omsk, Krasnoyarsk, Voronezh, Perm, Volgograd and Krasnodar.

You can apply for a sticker Online MTS Pay, you do not need to be an MTS subscriber for this. The first 50,000 users will receive Pay Tag for free, then it will cost 699 rubles.