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Eileen Brown
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30 Sep 2008 at 16:58

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So Nokia have signed a deal to use mobile phones as oyster cards.  For those of you who don’t live in London, Oyster cards are cards which are pre-loaded with money and can be used on the london transportation system so you don’t need to buy your ticket. We all carry mobile phones – so I think

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So Nokia have signed a deal to use mobile phones as oyster cards.  For those of you who don’t live in London, Oyster cards are cards which are pre-loaded with money and can be used on the london transportation system so you don’t need to buy your ticket.

Oyster card swiped on card reader

We all carry mobile phones – so I think that the idea of using your phone as cash is a great idea – I mean you can already pay for parking using your mobile phone – and also use it to pay for the congestion charge – so what’s the problem?

Dean thinks its a bit big brother – but I’m cool about this.  In the UK we enjoy the luxury of having more webcams per capita than any other country in the world.  We’re tracked wherever we go – and I feel quite safe knowing this.

So what do you think?

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