How would it be helpful if you could be in and out in public transportation with your cell phone? 10,000 customers of telecom operators Vodafone and KPN is still before the end of the year as possible.
The so-called Smart-transit system that ensures that you can check with your cell phone and check out was in 2015 during three months tested by a group of two hundred passengers. This experiment was so successful that it was decided to allow the system to roll out on a slightly larger scale, thus becomes reality now.
The system, which can be provisionally used only when the full rate charged for journey, is a big step in the modernization of payment methods in public transport. Still went realizing the test does not run smoothly.
“Telecom companies have large sums of money paid for their licenses and therefore require mainly what they can earn it,” says Bart Schmeink, president of Cooperative public Transport companies and director of public transport company Connexxion to Trouw. “While we think it may be just a credit to them, which they can please the customer. Fortunately, there are positive developments recently at KPN and Vodafone. “
Subscribers Vodafone and KPN’d soon want to check with their mobile and out can do so through their phone using the Smart Transit app link their OV-chip account. Subsequently, their public transport card superfluous.
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