Nearly 90 percent of Brits would be happy to use a payment system on their mobile phone
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Sep 5, 2008 at 7:00pm
Nearly 90 percent of Brits would be happy to use a payment system on their mobile phone, says O2 (according to a Macworld UK report. The telecommunications firm teamed up with Nokia, Transport for London (TfL) and a other high-street shops to test a new payment system between October 2007 and May 2008, the article adds.
The trial saw 500 Londoners given Nokia 6131 handsets that featured applications for TfL’s Oyster Card and Barclay’s payWave systems. Using near field communications (NFC) technology, the handset owners were able to travel on tubes, buses and trains by waving the phone near an Oyster Card reader or make purchases under £10 in a number of high street stores including Threshers off-licences and sandwich shop Eat by tapping the device on a specially designed console.
Macworld UK says that, according to O2, 89 percent of participants in the trial were happy with the Oyster Card application and 66 percent wanted to continue using the payWave system. An additional 87 percent also claimed their choice of handset would be influenced by its ability to be used as an Oyster card.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
