On March 31, 2016, Google announced that it was dropping support for the Google Wallet Card as of June 30, 2016 [REF].
On February 23, 2015, Google announced that it would acquire the intellectual property of the carrier-backed competitor Softcard and integrate it into Google Wallet, and that AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile US, and Verizon Wireless would bundle the Google Wallet app on their compatible devices.