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Old June 1st 08, 03:31 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Ticket sales changes
In article ,
(Neil Williams) wrote:

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 04:51:55 -0700 (PDT), Chris
wrote:

Because Electron & Solo require a real-time connection to your account
to check current balance, and that can't be got by theon-train
equipment.

It could quite easily be done by use of mobile phone technology - but
it would be expensive, and more importantly, very slow.

Given the slowness of the Shere machines in Cambridge station at
validating standard credit cards I can't imagine they could be any slower
over GPRS. They don't accept Electron or Solo (or didn't last week).

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