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Old February 28th 17, 02:56 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Roland Perry Roland Perry is offline
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Default Oyster product pickup improvements

In message , at 14:50:52 on Tue, 28
Feb 2017, Neil Williams remarked:

Then it's not really at all "like a contactless credit/debit card".


It will be *processed using the same system*. The intention is that it
will be used the same way as an Oyster presently is.


Colin very plausibly says not. The records of travel and balance being
held in the backoffice rather than on the card is a substantial
difference.
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Roland Perry