"French wireless telecom company Bouygues Telecom and Paris' public transportation authority, Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP), are preparing a trial that will allow riders of the city's subway and bus systems to use RFID-enabled cell phones as contactless transit cards," reports RFID Journal.
"Starting in March, 150 commuters will use new wireless phones instead of their RATP Navigo contactless transit cards to prepurchase fare for travel on the RATP network. To pay for a ride, participants will need only wave their cell phones past one of the Navigo RFID-enabled readers already installed at 800 Metro subway stations and on 8,000 buses. The trial's participants will have the option of using the cell phones to add additional money to their Navigo account, by means of a Web site accessed through Bouygues' i-mode wireless data service site. Navigo customers cannot currently renew their accounts online."
