Handyticket

In Germany they call mobile phones 'Handy'. You need to know that because I travelled in Germany just recently and found a website called www.handyticket.de. The company has relationships with several regional train providers, and these in turn are promoting their project as a pilot which is called 'HandyTicket'.

One would think we had entered the 22nd century by now, but no - lo and behold the payment system of 'Handyticket' is based on pre-payment and ordinary SMS. Bless - good ole SMS is clearly still the easiest mode of delivery.