Mobile-Ticketing - Delivery On Mobile Phone

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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ZebraPass

[powdered toast dude]

Back in 2000, this was the original plan of a Washington, DC startup called ZebraPass. They failed spectacularly.

this is old stuff

[theskeptic]

go to NTT Docomo to see their phones and what they are capable of. Barcoding, ticket sales? Already in place for the past 2 years in jp.

Yay for progress

[Dynedain]

This is pretty neat because it makes scalping (which is illegal in the US) almost impossible.

Unfortuneately, most people in the US don't have a phone that would be compatible with this system

Re:Yay for progress

[jdray]

One question: If a concert disallows cameras, but your phone has one on it, and you use the phone to redeem your ticket, isn't the venue in a sort of no-win situation when they actually observe that you are carrying a camera and are forced to let you in because that's your ticket, too?

I understand that venues have started looking the other way when it comes to checking for cameras and other recording devices since they're so prevalent and easily hidden. But some promoters or artists get kind of up tight about this sort of thing, and will refuse to hold a show if recording devices are let in at all.

That's the Ticket... Yeah...

[ackthpt]

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."

Way behind the japanese

[KanSer]

If you've been to Tokyo Dome City (The amusement park next to the tokyo dome) recently you'd have seen people cutting in line by putting their cellphone screens on to little scanning beds. For the modest sum of 1000 yen you could reserve four spots in line at either the main rollercoaster or the ferris wheel. They would send your cell phone an e-mail with a funky barcode that was less bar code and more dot-matrix/bitmappy black and white image. I cut a four hour line into 15 minutes. I love japanese cellphone technology.