Contactless Smart Cards, RFID, Payment, Transit and Security

ASEC, epay launch GSM prepaid phone cards on Warsaw's transit ticketing machines

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

ASEC, a Polish subsidiary of On Track Innovations (OTI), has partnered with epay Polska to introduce a new service that lets customers load GSM prepaid cellular phone cards on ASEC’s Ticket Vending Machines (TVMs).

ASEC’s TVMs are located throughout Warsaw’s metro, railway, bus and tram stations, and support multiple forms of payment including cash and coins, magnetic stripe cards, contact or contactless payment cards.


ASEC serves as an e-ticketing operator for Warsaw City Card system and provides a sales network system, infrastructure, distribution service and maintenance for loading of transportation electronic cards around the city. Its partner epay, a Division of Euronet Worldwide, Inc., is a global processor and distributor of electronic payment solutions and one of the largest distributors of cellular prepaid loadings in Poland. [end] 

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