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Monday, March 10, 2008

Mobile ticketing to grow.

Data from Juniper Research: "New research has estimated that over 2.6 billion mobile tickets will be delivered to just over 208 million mobile phone users by 2011." Ticketmaster and British Airways are cited as organizations adopting the technology, giving them the benefits of reduced cost (to the tune of US$500 million annually in the case of the airline industry), increased security and reduction in paper usage possibily leading to improved environmental footprint.

"Early use of mobile barcode technology will be gradually complimented by the emergence of NFC (Near Field Communications), in particular for the transportation ticketing sector [...]".

Reported in PhoneContent.com.