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Economic Times reports that Indian Railways has plans to make ticketing via SMS available to its customers: "Talks are also on with Reliance Infocomm for developing a
programme to make ticketing via SMS possible."In India, the penetration of
internet is still not as wide as is the penetration of cellular phones. There
are over 10 crore [100 million] mobile phone users and this creates a huge opportunity for
offering customer conveniences. Ticketing via SMS will save time and effort and
can also turn out to be a money churner," a Rail Bhawan official told ET.
Here's what is being planned. A 24/7 call centre will be set up for booking tickets and answering customer queries. Thereafter, once ticketing via SMS is introduced, all it will take to book a ticket is a call to the call centre and a customer identification number. The customer ID will be stored on the computer and the berth and seat number will be SMSed to the buyer. The payment will automatically be credited to the phone bill in case of a post-paid connection or will be deducted from the pre-paid card." 10:21:16 PM  comment [] trackback []
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