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Mobile-Ticketing - Delivery On Mobile Phone

Posted by timothy on from the who-needs-a-boarding-pass dept.

quark007 writes "That's Cricket is reporting that the first match of the India-Australia cricket Test series in Bangalore next month will have hi-tech ticketing with the launch of 'Mobile-Ticketing,' a new service that enables cricket fans across the world to book the tickets online. But thats half the fun, since the tickets would be delivered directly to their mobile phones. the service is managed by Spice . The service delives the ticket as a special barcode which can then be scanned by a barcode reader. Sounds simple. Wired reported a similar story a while back." A system like this would have been great in my unsuccessful hunt for LotR Marathon tickets.

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  1. Guess I'll get excited by w.p.richardson · · Score: 1, Funny

    when I get a mobile phone.

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  2. They ticket you for watching cricket? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    As an American I have no idea what they are talking about.

    Also as an American I will act as if this is your fault.

    1. Re:They ticket you for watching cricket? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      This should read as India vs India match, as all australian players were outsourced to india. I hope this time India beats India

  3. Sounds great by Tyndmyr · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now to get there before the battery dies...

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  4. That's the Ticket... Yeah... by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Me: "Ok, I want a ticket for the Manchester United match..."dit-dit-diddit
    Phone: "Congratulations! You have an advance ticket for Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith"
    Me: "wtf.. Gimme a ticket for The Producers..."diddit-dit-dit-dit
    Phone: "Congratulations! You have another advance ticket for Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith"
    Me: "whaaaattt.. How about a ticket for standing in the road and being hit by a bus..." dit-diddit-dit
    Phone: "Congratulations! You have yet another advance ticket for Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith"
    Me: "Hm.. I think this thing's been 0wn3d, that could explain all the sold out performances of Barry Manilow."

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  5. A good first step by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Precognition and folding of space-time to follow.

  6. You can order the ticket online via cellphone OR.. by Jakhel · · Score: 3, Funny

    just call the ticket office ON your cell phone and order the tickets.

    Hmmm..decisions decisions

  7. Re:Hoping by ackthpt · · Score: 3, Funny
    Wow, hope I don't have to hang up on my agent to talk to those icky ticket collectors...

    The worst part is when the guy at the turnstile tears your phone in half.

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  8. Re:Yawn by syrinje · · Score: 2, Funny

    Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow Sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-three million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think cellular phones are a pretty neat idea. God, I miss looking forward to his next book.
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  9. Wonderfull... by john_anderson_ii · · Score: 2, Funny

    An even more extravagant way for my wife to spend our money faster than I can make it. Please...don't tell my wife about this.

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  10. Mobile-Ticketing? by Malk-a-mite · · Score: 2, Funny

    For a brief moment I had the wonderful vision of people who talk loud enough on their phone in a train for everyone to hear the conversation getting a Mobile Ticket for being stupid in public...

    What's this about cricket?

  11. Thought the same thing by CrazyJim1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    CopDude456: Sup?
    CopDude456: Do u no y I IM u?
    CopDude456: Bustinated for speeding.
    CopDude456: ASL? Licence and registration 2.
    CopDude456: And your using your cell while driving. GOT U AGAIN! LOL!!! :)
    Nokia alert: $500 charged to cell phone bill.

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  12. Am I the only one... by dbc · · Score: 2, Funny

    .. that misinterpreted the headline and thought I'd be getting speeding tickets on my cell phone as I drove past a trooper?

    Ummm... no wait... I don't speed... I was thinking about that *neighbor* kid getting a speeding ticket....