London buses are to start accepting contactless payments from Thursday.
Passengers on the city's 8,500 vehicles will be able to buy
tickets by swiping a credit, debit or charge card by an NFC (near field
communication) reader.
Transport for London follows Stagecoach which began installing NFC equipment on its buses in 2009.
TfL also operates the Oyster smartcard scheme which uses an earlier RFID (radio-frequency identification) technology.
The buses' Oyster card readers have been upgraded to be compatible with both types,
Smartphones that can mimic contactless cards should also work with the equipment.
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