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Old December 1st 12, 10:42 AM posted to uk.transport.london
Mizter T Mizter T is offline
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On 01/12/2012 10:48, Richard wrote:

On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:44:18 +0000, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 12:28:41 on Fri, 30 Nov
2012, Mizter T remarked:

Barclaycard OnePulse cards always had payWave functionality, it's not a
recent addition - that was part of the original selling point.


Fair enough, but what will happen (soon) on a London Bus: which of the
two elements will "win"; or will it refuse to pick either, claiming you
are trying to use more than one card at once?


Unless the two elements are connected and can decide between
themselves, which is almost impossible to believe,


The OnePulse card was specifically designed so that the payWave and
Oyster elements of the card didn't conflict, so my understanding is that
they are in at least one sense 'connected'. (Curious why you think such
a thing is almost impossible to believe?)

then it's like
having an Oyster and a PayWave in the same wallet, which already
causes trouble. My wallet, with Oyster, ITSO and a Spanish one (not
sure what standard that one is) is guaranteed to fail!


Well, what we can be sure of is that no-one at TfL could possibly have
considered this scenario...