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Old September 17th 14, 07:03 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Matthew Dickinson Matthew Dickinson is offline
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Default Contactless on the tube and rail

On Wednesday, 17 September 2014 19:25:46 UTC+1, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at

10:21:57 on Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Matthew Dickinson

remarked:

There are two different types of contactless cards around:




i) just emulates the magnetic strip




ii) is connected to the EMV chip.




It's the first (mostly USA issued) which won't be accepted.




That's interesting, so even the ))) contactless symbol has nuances?



To do with technology rather than what sort of credit rating you have.

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Roland Perry


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