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Old February 8th 16, 03:48 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Contactless and revenue checks
On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 03:04:51PM +0000, d wrote:

Well unless the RID has a realtime radio link to the main computer I don't
see how else it could be done other than by a reconciliation later.

Mobile data hardware and airtime is dirt cheap these days, so I'd not be
at all surprised to learn that ticket inspectors' hand-held devices can
talk to head office in real time.

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