The MBTA is pair with Masabi , a UK - based Mobile River ticketing and payment house . “ With this newfangled and innovative feeler , we are putting a ticket machine right in the palm of our customers ’ hired hand , ” said Acting MBTA General Manager Jonathan Davis , by allow riders to purchase menu on their headphone with credit or debit card .
What ’s more , the new ticketing scheme , which would rely on barcodes rather than NFC technology , could perhaps replace the CharlieCard for month - head riders . the Charlie Card program , which was rolled out in just 2007 , was theorise to be the next big NFC thing , promise numerousnear - term technical innovation . However , at this point those innovations appear to be scrapping the menu system in party favour of the next next big NFC thing — Browning automatic rifle codes . Interesting to see a municipality proceed away from a technology before it has even had an chance at widespread acceptation , politics usually lags behind predominate trend . [ Business WireviaPC WorldviaMobile defrayal Today – Image : The AP ]
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