SMART CARDS * UK - Buy your bus tickets using your phone
Waving your mobile in the face of technology
Harrow,England,UK -The Inquirer, by Emma Hughes -22 January 2009: -- The Department for Transport has now completed its first live mobile ticketing trial for buses using the ITSO smartcard standard mandated by the government... This primary trail took place over a six-month period in the north west of England involving 36 passengers traveling using two bus operators. The tickets were paid for using a near-field communication (NFC) mobile phone... In order to find out if this plan was to succeed two steps needed to be taken, firstly to see how feasible it was to use an NFC phone as an ITSO ticket carrier and secondly to work out if ITSO compliant products are actually able to be remotely loaded and validated on NFC enabled customer devices...
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