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Old September 17th 14, 10:49 AM posted to uk.transport.london
Roland Perry Roland Perry is offline
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Default Contactless on the tube and rail

In message , at 10:26:15 on Wed, 17 Sep
2014, d remarked:
If companies didn't contract stuff out, where would you be? And if the


contract isn't clear about ownership of what you create they are crazy.




So TfL owns the right to the MiFare system, smart card readers and contactless


bank cards does it? Umm , no. So what is left - the gates and the backend


software?


They own whatever middleware and other technology has taken over a year
more than even the most recent estimate to get running. It looks as if
it *ought* to be simple, but clearly it's not.
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Roland Perry