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| The 4,000-plus ticket machines in SNCF stations
are currently being upgraded to the EMV standard.
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Last year in France, one out of every 75 payments
made by CB bankcard was to SNCF (French Railways): 60% of the national
rail company's sales are now made using CB cards through its network
of
4,000-plus ticket machines which are currently being upgraded to the
EMV standard. Rollout of new ticket machines serving the regional
rail network (one quarter of the total) was completed at the end of
March 2005.
The 1,200 machines of the inter-city network (TGV high speed trains),
which were installed in the 1980s, will migrate and be replaced by
new machines in the second quarter of 2005.
"Prototypes have
been installed at pilot sites, such as Montparnasse Station (Paris),
to ensure that they are user-friendly", explained Didier Pinson,
Manager of Payment Acceptance at SNCF.
The ticket machines throughout the Ile-de-France network (the remaining
third of the total number of machines) will also be changed to accommodate
the introduction of the new "Navigo" monthly pass. Their
migration to EMV will be completed by the end of this summer. |
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