Skytrain, subway eye fares-by-phone plan.

(From Bangkok Post)

Bangkok commuters on the skytrain and subway may soon be able to use their mobile phones to pay fares.

Payzy Thailand Co, the operator of the Mobile Payment Club, plans to to introduce a contact-less mobile payment service early next year that will allow payments to be made using handsets as debit cards, instead of prepaid cards. Users of the system must have a special "contact-less" chip embedded in their phones. The chip will store the value of money that can be used in the same way as cash.

President Siravet Suknet said the mobile ticketing service under the Pay at Point concept used a software system that would send a signal …