Sunday, January 28, 2007
IC tickets top the ranks
Every year Nikkei Marketing Journal publishes a ranking list of the most successful products of the past year in the form Sumo wrestling results are traditionally displayed: there is a Western side and an Eastern side, winners at the top are displayed in much larger print than also rans at the bottom.
IC tickets are the "Ooseki" (second place) winners on the Eastern side of the Sumo ranking of hit products for 2006.
On March 18, 2007, more than 100 transportation companies of the Tokyo region including 25 train operators which serve a population of around 30 million will introduce PASMO IC-Tickets. Introduction of PASMO will increase market share for IC-tickets and ecash in Japan - and globally.
Read more in the latest edition of our
Suica and IC-Ticket report.
IC tickets are the "Ooseki" (second place) winners on the Eastern side of the Sumo ranking of hit products for 2006.
On March 18, 2007, more than 100 transportation companies of the Tokyo region including 25 train operators which serve a population of around 30 million will introduce PASMO IC-Tickets. Introduction of PASMO will increase market share for IC-tickets and ecash in Japan - and globally.
Read more in the latest edition of our
Suica and IC-Ticket report.
Labels: ecash, felica, ic-ticket, mifare, nfc, pasmo, rfid, suica
Sunday, January 21, 2007
PASMO: IC cards for transport
On March 18, 2007, more than 100 transportation companies (26 railway companies and 75 bus companies) - moving 30 million people of the Tokyo region - will switch to the IC card ticketing and e-cash system named "PASMO". PASMO will interoperate and partially compete with SUICA.
Preparations go back more than 20 years, when Japan's national railways started research on IC cards for ticketing. SUICA IC-card tickets were introduced commercially in November 2001 at 424 JR-EAST rail stations in the Tokyo region.
Tokyo's PASMO is likely to develop into one of the world's biggest electronic payment and e-cash systems.
Preparations go back more than 20 years, when Japan's national railways started research on IC cards for ticketing. SUICA IC-card tickets were introduced commercially in November 2001 at 424 JR-EAST rail stations in the Tokyo region.
Tokyo's PASMO is likely to develop into one of the world's biggest electronic payment and e-cash systems.
Labels: felica, ic-ticket, nfc, pasmo, rfid, suica, wallet phone
