Mobile Ticketing Becoming More Popular With UK Festivals
Mobile ticketing company, Trinity Mobile has revealed that its cell phone ticketing service is enabling UK festival organizers to sell tens of thousands of tickets thus easing the ticketing process and minimizing fraud. The service is virtually eliminating the number of fake tickets presented on the day of the show.
Leading events across the UK will be using Trinity Mobile’s Easy Ticket technology to enable concertgoers to receive tickets on their mobile phones, and will allow festival organizers to make use of the data generated from the ticket sales to promote future events to fans.
According to D James Busby, Head of Detonate Productions, and a convert to Trinity Mobile’s ticketing process, more and more people are attending their events and it is imperative that they sell tickets as quickly and efficiently as possible, without having to issue thousands of paper tickets or worry about counterfeit passes.
Another festival, whose ticketing is set to be handled by Trinity Mobile include Nottingham University’s planned October 2010 festival. This is a major tented festival which expects to attract over 10,000 visitors.
Grameenphone users to book rail tickets via mobile (Bangladesh)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The world is going mobile and with so many developments happening in the telecom world, the most benefited are the mobile users. Mobile operator Grameenphone has taken a step ahead to make the life of its users a bit easier. Commuters in Bangladesh can now reserve train tickets 10 days in advance over their mobile phone through Grameenphone’s Mobitaka service.
The payment for the tickets can be done by using the balance in the user’s Mobitaka account. The operator has collaborated with Computer Network Systems (CNS) Limited which is the Bangladeshi equivalent of IRCTC. CNS took over the computerized reservation and ticketing system of Bangladesh Railway in 2007.
All Inter-city trains starting from Dhaka Kamlapur, Dhaka Airport and Chittagong stations would be offered the mobile ticketing service initially. The service will be expended to all other intercity trains gradually. A menu from the mobile phone will be entered by the users and travelling information would have to be fed to book the tickets.
After the above steps, the user will get an option to either book the tickets for a stipulated time period or purchase immediately if the seats are available. Through an SMS, a digital train ticket number will be sent from which paper-based ticket from the train station at the time of travel could be obtained. A service fee of BDT 20 per seat will be charged along with the ticket cost.
Mobile ticketing becomes popular in UK
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Over 600,000 mobile boarding passes has been processed by mobile ticketing supplier, Trinity Mobile, sent out via mobile text messages in 2009, up from 50,000 in 2008. Mobile phone technology to scan barcodes directly off all mobile phone screens is used by the company and is customers include Austrian Airlines and British Midlands Airways (BMI).
According to Rob Clegg, Commercial Director at Trinity Mobile, the massive growth in mobile ticketing is completely driven by the consumer’s need for the fastest, easiest and most affordable way to get tickets and the company’s technology has proven to deliver these enhanced customer services efficiently, securely and cost effectively, and has the added benefit of being environmentally friendly.
Besides delivering more quickly with cancellations, mobile ticketing also reduces the costs related to issuing paper boarding passes and even the cancellations and re-issues are managed almost instantly.
Idea Cellular offers free mobile tickets for films & travel (India)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Citizens of Mumbai and Delhi can now become a part of the save paper campaign started by the pan-India network provider, Idea Cellular, by using their mobile phones instead of paper tickets to travel and watch movies.
People can participate in an SMS-based radio contest which would entitle them to a code (sent to them via SMS), which will be valid as a ‘mobile ticket’ to travel free of cost on the Bandra-Worli Sea Link in Mumbai, and the Delhi-Noida-Direct (DND) toll bridge, as well as watch a movie at PVR Cinemas in these cities.
The first 4,000 people in Mumbai, who SMS ‘Idea Sealink’ to a short code, will receive an SMS which will enable them to travel free of cost and ticket-less on a single journey while the first 200 people who SMS ‘Idea movie’ will win free tickets to the screening of movie ‘Karthik calling Karthik’ at PVR Cinemas on the same day.
Pacific Net gears up for 3G launch, signs deal with China Unicom
Pacific Net, a provider of CRM and telemarketing services, e-commerce, gaming and value-added services (VAS) in China, is gearing up for 3G launch by signing an agreement with China Unicom to become one of the designated value-added short message services (SMS) providers for Uni-Info. Uni-Info is a recently launched mobile information service to service mass market China mobile users.Uni-Info is an SMS-based information subscription and delivery-on-demand service launched by China Unicom and is now available to its GSM and CDMA phone users. Its content offerings include entertainment and financial information, as well as interactive gaming and dating, giving its subscribers access to first-hand information via SMS in over 20 provinces and cities in China.
China Unicom’s media portal, Uni-info, has three major theme sections. The Uni-Entertainment section features realistic 3D games with lifelike audio and video. The Uni-Life experience section provides services such as mobile ticket purchasing. The Uni-Business section shows real-time functions of financial and stock market information and news.
The interactive interface reportedly enables newcomers and non-professionals to get what they want from the stock and finance channel of Uni-Business. One function of Uni-Business is mobile e-commerce, which offers financial management, payment, phone banking and e-commerce services on mobile phones. This feature turns the mobile phone into an e-commerce terminal, enabling consumer’s access to e-commerce and e-banking services anywhere, anytime and in a secure and efficient way.
Source- http://www.digitalmediaasia.com
