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Crossrail transition
On 24.10.2017 7:07 PM, Clank wrote:
On 24.10.2017 4:59 PM, Roland Perry wrote: In message , at 04:33:09 on Tue, 24 Oct 2017, Paul Corfield remarked: If HEX had wanted smartcards it would have introduced them by now as it's a simple self contained operation. I expect it is far keener to get TfL's contactless card system installed off the back of Oyster acceptance. Being able to use bank cards will likely appeal to a large proportion of their regular users. I wonder how many foreign-issued bank cards will work with the contactless system? If anything the UK is backward compared to the rest of the world on contactless acceptance, and since the technology is standardised by EMV (https://www.emvco.com/emv-technologies/contactless/) worldwide, the answer is going to be "as close to 100% as makes no odds." Much as large parts of the world jumped straight into mobile internet without a fixed line step in the middle, much of the world doesn't need to support ancient ICL tills and went straight to always-connected card terminals which easily support things like contactless. Here in the East we use contactless with no transaction limit even on debit cards with zero floor limit (easy and safe because all authentication is online all the time.) And my Eastern European zero-floor Romanian Lei denominated card has been accepted anywhere I tried it, from Thailand to Taiwan and everywhere in between, and from Ukraine to UK and everywhere in between (and quite a few not) as well - including, yes, on the tube. (And indeed, relevantly, on the Gatwick Express.) No ticket purchase and no queues will appeal to business travellers. As a much travelled businessman (in general terms) I can assure you that the lack of a paper receipt/ticket to attach to my expenses claim is a huge disadvantage. Other systems solve this problem easily, as you've been told before. NS's system for Chipkaart produces a very nice online expenses claim receipt (which is specifically valid for Dutch tax purposes in the case of nominal/registered cards,) which is far more convenient than toting around bits of paper - the same can be done for contractless Contactless even. Goddamn, doesn't matter how many times I proofread there's always something I only spot *after* pressing Send... |
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