Railway Tickets on Cell Phones

By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews

Thanks to Germany’s national railway, you can now buy tickets via your mobile phone, receive an MMS back, and use that as a ticket. The MMS is read by special scanners.

Customers who use the service receive a multimedia message on their mobile phones that’s read by new scanners and serve as a ticket, railway operator Deutsche Bahn said. Source: ABC News

We Say: The hope, expressed by railway operator Deutsche Bahn is that this will appeal to young people and businesspeople and increase ridership. It’ll certainly increase your messaging fees.