Mizter T wrote on 03 July 2010 07:58:32 ...

On Jul 3, 7:34 am, Paul wrote:

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Andrew writes

Oyster was meant to be updated to ITSO technology but it doesn't appear
to be happening. I believe its a similar situation at SWT.

I think that the basics for Oyster/ITSO compatibility must be in place,
because all Freedom passes issued in the last few months speak ITSO as
well as Oyster (although I imagine that the Oyster implementation is
quite basic on Freedom cards).

Though the Freedom Pass change need not necessarily have meant any
changes on the validator side of things - the new Freedom Pass being a
combined MiFare (Oyster) and ITSO standard card.

According to the London Councils site, TfL did have to make changes to
their gates and reader network to handle the new cards.
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