On 1 Jun, 14:54, (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.

Neil

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Neil Williams
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Quite. Which is exactly why they don't do this.