A shuttle bus in St. Petersburg, you can now pay with your mobile

In St. Petersburg, with a mobile phone can now pay not only travel in the subway, buses, trams, trolley buses and akvabusah, but also in the taxi. Pay for travel on the subway and surface public transport St. Petersburg residents and visitors to be October 5, 2011. The introduction of this service is made ​​possible by partnering with the company MegaFon Transport Committee of St. Petersburg. Now the government of St. Petersburg adopted a program, under which all taxis are equipped with special readers to the end of 2012. To date, pay the fare with the city of universal card "plantain" and the mini-map of MegaFon - "MegaChip" may be in the 12 commercial routes: K-8, K-16, K 60, K 124, K 194, K- 242, K 297, K 388, K-88, K 89, K-162 K-309. In order to use the new service, just plug it into any interior connection MegaFon in St. Petersburg, to get a special card with an integrated chip, which is attached to the phone and fill resource "MegaChipa" from your mobile phone. You can pay the fare, bringing the phone to "MegaChipom" to the reader, as a regular ticket. When paying with a card is debited the amount spent on travel. Bill for "MegaChipe" is easily updated through service "Mobile Payments". The operator said that the payment of public transport by mini-card with built-in chip MegaFon - this is only the first step in the future "MegaChip" can be used as a universal means of payment.