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    NTA hat „erstaunliche“ 35 Millionen Euro für ein kontaktloses Zahlungssystem ausgegeben, das 2028 fällig ist


    NTA hat „erstaunliche“ 35 Millionen Euro für ein kontaktloses Zahlungssystem ausgegeben, das 2028 fällig ist

    https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41788685.html

    Von PoppedCork

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    1. PoppedCork on

      €35.6m spent since 2020 and we still won’t have contactless payments until 2028. This is tech many other countries already use, yet Dublin gets it first and Cork has no timeline. Massive spend, zero delivery, painfully slow by Irish standards.

    2. Business_Version1676 on

      By 2030 when they finally roll out their Dublin bus sum up machines, we will already have our Rothschild and Co digital wallet chip implanted in our wrist and this will be outdated tech

    3. im_on_the_case on

      ASTOUNDING article, all two feckin sentences of it. Top notch journalism.

    4. DyslexicAndrew on

      I genuinely think people don’t understand the level and complexity that has to go into something like this. While yes it is frustrating for people outside Dublin to have no timeline for contactless payment, whipping up a story about 35m being spent is a bit silly in my opinion. The piece doesn’t say what the money was spent on, it just sounds like people who don’t really know what happens behind the scenes are just whipping people into a frenzy. The NTA’s budget for contactless payment over the next few years is 2.7 billion so that the systems and validators can be upgraded and repaired as the tech progresses and is rolled out around the entire country.

    5. NocturneFogg on

      By the time this is launched we may be using more apps for payment anyway . There is a big EU and ECB push to have alternatives to Mastercard and Visa on in place due to it being a duopoly of US companies controlling way too much of the payment market.

      No doubt it won’t be, but you’d hope they’re planning in future proof terminals that can be software upgraded.

      2028 is ludicrously late to launch this.

      They also seem to live in a sort of la la land where they imagine Ireland is a laggard on these techs. It has one of the highest uptakes of contactless and particularly mobile / watch payments in the EU and in the world and basically 100% penetration of contactless cards. They’re running about 15-20 years behind the public and normal retailers on this.

      They expect 2029 before the whole system is covered btw. I wouldn’t be expecting to be tapping in Cork and Limerick until the 2030s!!

    6. dorsanty on

      There’s no details here at all, it is just „Hey loads of money spent, be angry!“

      This could be the entire procurement and installation fee, it could just be the initial deposit too.

      If you take all Dublin Buses, Dart and National Rail services, and any other services into account it is a lot of machines. A change over will be more expensive than a new install too, because they’ll need to make sure both systems can work at the same time and for a while afterwards too before the Leapcards are phased out or whatever the plan is for those.

    7. EllieLou80 on

      This is t surprising tbh, I remember working in a company in 2004 that had a hive of activity from architects offices getting extremely expensive and detailed plans printed for the metro. Obviously metro never happened but over the years I’m sure millions have been spent in consultant fees and plans and now home acquisitions and still no metro. So the fact they’ve spent that much on contactless payments and we still don’t have it nor will for another few years doesn’t surprise me.

    8. RonRon68 on

      in London years ago it was 66m£… „The launch of contactless payment required the development of new ‘zero value transaction’ payment rules in partnership with card issuers, and the deployment of back-office centric technology which Transport for London developed in-house. The roll-out has cost a total of £66m, and TfL expects to more than recover the £11m cost of software development by licensing it to other transport operators around the world.“
      https://www.railwaygazette.com/contactless-payment-arrives-in-london/39971.article?utm_source=chatgpt.com

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