New BT Wholesale Speedtester

[Steve]

Not sure what the purpose of cash is anymore - it gets stolen by one offspring when left lying around, it gets changed by the same for something of lesser value.

I did find a use for it today though - the cash only till at Morrisons had no queue- I've just proved my point.

[Polchraine]

I very rarely carry cash.

I wonder when the cost of handling cash (including increased risk) will become a chargeable extra to consumers rather then the cost of the card payment?

When the cost of:   the safe to hold the cash,   the cost of having change delivered, the additional insurance costs for keeping cash on the premises, the cost for cash collections, the charges the collection company makes for checking and banking ...  is taken into account it starts to show that the small percentage taken by a CC company can often be smaller.  Retailers conveniently forget all of the items above when saying cards will cost an extra  2% (or what ever!).

[pctech]

I've got a load of shrapnel in a tin, maybe I'll unload it on the local shop at work in exchange for a Wispa 

[nowster]

speed tests should be run from an Ethernet or USB connection. the iPad doesn't have an ethernet port

Or even just an Ethernet connection connected to an internal system bus with DMA. USB adds strain on the CPU.