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TORONTO • Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has confirmed that its new mobile payments platform, Samsung Pay, will be made available for Canadians to use — eventually.

The handset manufacturer announced last week that Samsung Pay would be released in Korea on Thursday and in the United States on Sept. 28, with unspecified plans to bring the service to the U.K., Spain and China. Turns out Canada is, in fact, on Samsung’s radar, but it ranks lower on a list of potential markets. After all, Canadians have been slow to adopt digital payment technologies so far.

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“In Canada, we will roll out Samsung Pay. We’re not ready to talk about specific timelines, but we’re on the international roadmap,” Ken Price, vice-president of carrier sales and marketing in Canada, told reporters at a technical briefing in Toronto on Monday.