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Old February 25th 12, 08:52 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.rail.americas
Roland Perry Roland Perry is offline
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Default cards, was E-ZPass, was CharlieCards v.v. Oyster (and Octopus?)

In message , at 19:02:04 on Sat, 25
Feb 2012, " remarked:
UK credit cards and proximity cards are different things.


They are "converging things". I don't know of any post-payment proximity
cards that aren't also conventional credit cards. But only a few
conventional credit cards have the proximity technology.


Barclays Bank, IIRC.


Barclaycards, which were at one time all VISA, but I have a Barclay
Mastercard, just to prove it's possible.
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Roland Perry