Bar-coded SMS to make tickets redundant

New Delhi: You may no longer have to bother collecting your ticket from an airline office or carry a printout of the ticket downloaded from the internet.
Even going to a cinema hall to book a movie ticket could be a thing of the past. Bar coded SMS will now verify details of your tickets.
After booking his ticket on the mobile phone, the customer will receive an SMS carrying a seven-digit number in bar code form.
This bar-coded SMS could then be scanned by readers at airports and movie halls. The bar code SMS also provides a 120 character text messages describing the offer.
Technology company Value First is already undertaking a pilot test, with the service expected to be launched next month.
30/08/06 Khomba Singh/Business Standard

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