Hong Kong's Smart Card program for public transportation - the Octopus Project - has over 7.5 million cards in circulation, covers more than 60 service providers and reconciles over 6 million transactions every day. Source: Brian Chambers, Creative Star Ltd. -- Anonymous

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Subject: Hong Kong's Smart Card program for public transportation - the Octopus Project - has over 7.5 million cards in circulation, covers more than 60 service providers and reconciles over 6 million transactions every day. Source: Brian Chambers, Creative Star Ltd.

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MTE (Canada) Moving the economy issue November 2001

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Date Posted: Wednesday, April 09, 10:30:09pm
In reply to: extending to Nokia mobile phones. 's message, "Hong Kong's Octopus smart card/contactless/fare payments" on Wednesday, February 05, 04:18:27am

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Hong Kong's Smart Card program for public transportation - the Octopus Project - has over 7.5 million cards in circulation, covers more than 60 service providers, and reconciles over 6 million transactions every day. Source: Brian Chambers, Creative Star Ltd.

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