Contactless Smart Cards, RFID, Payment, Transit and Security

Editor’s note on Ohio legislation: Take action or live with it

Friday, August 1, 2003 in Library

While the Ohio staff did an admirable job attempting to provide background on the campus card industry, they were certainly hampered by a lack of historical context of the campus card market. Ohio State’s BuckID program is one of the nation’s most advanced, long established, and well-supported debit card programs. Using their numbers as the benchmark, only a handful of programs across the country could shine. True OSU covers 80% of the costs associated with operating the debit card system with the merchant fee revenues–but after nine years and a wildly successful effort.

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