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Admission Tickets as Text Messages
lee1 writes to tell us that InfoWorld is reporting that Smartmachine and their partner Skidata have developed a new way to allow customers to purchase and receive tickets to events. The new ticketing system allows users to "have a ticket sent to their mobile phone via SMS (Short Message Service) in the form of a 2D (two-dimensional) bar code. At the gate, they slide their mobile phone display showing the bar code by a bar code reader." The new technology also claims to help combat the counterfeit, pilferage, and repeat use that can be such a problem for paper tickets.
So you buy the ticket on your cell phone, have to bring the phone to the theater with you, and then the first thing they tell you when you sit down is "Please turn off your cell phone"?
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Now people will have a REASON for bringing their cell phones to a movie...*Grumble*
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...the fare is deducted from their phone bill.
So if you buy enough public transit tickets your phone usage is free?
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I hope they never introduce a system like that in London, I'd rather pay the £30 phone bill!
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...by an NSA agent.
Maybe they're ASCII art barcodes.
You'll have to buy a new phone. The whole thing is a plot by Nokia.
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