MegaFon presented the service to pay for travel with a mobile phone in public transport in Yekaterinburg

The operator MegaFon has recently presented the service to pay for travel with a mobile phone in public transport in Yekaterinburg. The first passenger paid the fare on the subway with a mobile phone technology NFC, became head of the administration of the city, Alexander Jakob, it happened at the station, "Geological Survey" Yekaterinburg subway. Thus, the operator MegaFon has moved from theory to practice in the implementation of NFC-services. In the future, pay for travel from the mobile phone will be able not only to the citizens in the metro, but also in all kinds of ground public transport - wherever accepted for payment "EKARTa" To implement the service to pay for travel to Yekaterinburg, a special SIM-card with NFC-chip . The size of SIM-card is the same as a normal, and the amount of memory to 4 times more. An important part of the project was to develop an interactive menu service management fare. In addition, you can not replenish the balance in specific areas receiving payments, but through all the usual channels that are available to make money on the account of a mobile phone. The first to get access to a new service ticket from the phone will be able to estimate the band service - bloggers, media representatives, the residents of the city. Everyone will be able to buy their own kits for travel in vehicles on the NFC technology to MegaFon in late June - early July 2012 in respect of the operator stores in Yekaterinburg.