Top off Your Parking Meter with a Cell Call

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday June 27, 2006 @05:24AM from the make-the-call-from-your-friend's-phone dept.

dstone writes "Vancouver, Canada has just become the first major city in North America to allow motorists to feed their parking meters with their cell phone. Drivers call a number on each meter, the system recognizes them by Caller ID, they enter how many minutes they want, and that's it. The system sends them a reminder text message before their time is up and they can extend their time remotely. The catch? The company contracted to provide the service, Verrus, makes their money through a 30-cent 'convenience fee.' Less pockets full of change, less parking tickets, seems like a step forward."

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Choose your payment method: by telso · 2006-06-27 05:36 · Score: 5, Funny

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Assistance Required by Aqua_boy17 · 2006-06-27 06:08 · Score: 5, Funny

...feed their parking meters with their cell phone
I'd like to try this, but I can't seem to fit my phone into the coin slot. Maybe if I bought a Razr?

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