On 05/09/2013 16:14, Matthew Dickinson wrote:

On Thursday, 5 September 2013 11:10:13 UTC+1, Paul Corfield wrote:
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Also interesting to see the 2 year extension for ITSO card processing
for London. I wonder how much money has been spent on the current
contract to process virtually no cards given there is negligible or no
ITSO card acceptance on the TfL system at the moment (happy to be
corrected)? Clearly you have to do testing etc but the article reads
as if an existing service is being continued.

ENCTS cards are ITSO cards that are valid on TfL buses. I'm not sure
if they are being used on bus readers yet.

I'm fairly sure ENCTS cards can now be read on TfL bus readers. (I think
the bus readers have all been updated to the Cubic 'Tri-Reader 3' which
can handle Oyster/Mifare, ITSO and EMV contactless cards (i.e. Visa
PayWave, Mastercard PayPass etc).