Mobile phones are voucher to ride
A bus corporation has presented passengers the opportunity to purchase vouchers over their mobile handset.
Arriva Bus says it is the first time in the UK that citizens can classify their vouchers on the handset, and then utilize their mobile as an electronic bus pass.
Passengers can purchase each day, weekly and monthly tickets and merely demonstrate the mobile handset voucher when they plank.
Launching the service in Llandudno, Conwy, the corporation said the method would wrap 1,000 routes across the UK.
Michael Morton, managing director of Arriva Buses Wales, said: “The mobile phone is an essential part of modern life and m-tickets will give additional flexibility and convenience to our customers.
“The launch of m-ticketing across all our regions will mean that millions of bus journeys will be taken using the technology.
“We believe this represents the largest introduction of its type in the world.”
“Customers can buy tickets using their phone at anytime from wherever they happen to be. It saves them searching out the cash to buy a ticket and speeds up getting on the bus as they simply show the ticket on the phone display to the driver,” added Mr Morton.
