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Regional transport officials in New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, say they won’t wait any longer for the country’s National Ticketing Solution to reach the city and will launch open-loop payments on their own. They plan an open-payments overlay, using secure-access modules to retrofit closed-loop terminals, enabling them to accept bank cards.
The Greater Wellington Regional Council is spending NZ$5.5 million ($3.2 million) in local money to enable open-loop payments by next spring.
• GWRC (Wellington)
• NZTA (New Zealand)
• Snapper Services
• Tmoney
• Cubic
• Auckland Transport
• Littlepay
• Planeta Informática
• ATM (Barcelona)
• Metlink
• Windcave
The transport authority serving New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, said it can no longer wait for the country’s “National Ticketing Solution” to reach the city and is spending NZ$5.5 million ($3.2 million) in local money to enable open-loop payments by next spring.
The authority, known as the Greater Wellington Regional Council, will be retrofitting terminals that accept the closed-loop Snapper card with secure-access modules, or SAMs, as part of an open-payments “overlay,” Mobility Payments has learned. These chips would enable the terminals to accept bank cards in a matter of months, say project backers.
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