Eftpos and Telstra officials said in a previous panel at the conference that it .

A big part of the issue is convincing people to put all their payment and other important information on a mobile in the first place, Lee said. "I panic when I lose my phone ... and it doesn't have any of that. I'd be devastated if I lost it and it did."

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