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Old December 18th 12, 09:26 AM posted to uk.transport.london
Roland Perry Roland Perry is offline
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Default London buses to offer contactless payment card option from tomorrow (12/12/12)

In message , at 22:06:02 on Mon, 17 Dec
2012, Mizter T remarked:
In the mean time they seem to be over-selling the very few aspects
that have been implemented on the buses: viz it doesn't work for
non-UK cards, and it probably doesn't work for prepay cards or those
associated with an under-18 bank account.


For completeness, it's now been drawn to my attention that the buses
also don't [yet] accept Orange's "Quick Tap" NFC payment service, which
is in effect a pre-paid Barclaycard[1].

[1] Which like the plastic is branded Paypass, rather than Paywave.


PayPass is Mastercard's brand, payWave is Visa's - both are for
contactless payments.


Yes, I know. And Amex's is Expresspay.

Paywave seems to have the edge when it comes to a generic term emerging.

(see Hoover).
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Roland Perry