Calgary Transit Launches Mobile-Ticketing Service with Plans to Expand to Open Loop

By:

Dan Balaban

NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Canada’s third largest city, Calgary, has introduced its first electronic fare payments service, offering mobile ticketing from a software-as-a-service platform provider, with plans to enable customers to pay for fares with their contactless EMV credit and debit cards and NFC wallets.

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