TfL terminates Oyster contract

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

"Transport for London has terminated its contract with the Transys consortium that provides the Oyster ticketing system 
for the London Underground, buses and trams.

The consortium, which comprises EDS and Cubic, will continue to operate the system for the next two years.
However, TfL has confirmed that the consortium owns the Oyster brand, leaving confusion over how the transistion to any 
replacement system will be implemented.

A spokesperson for TfL insisted that the contract has been terminated due to business reasons, and not because of two 
consecutive outages that hit London over two weeks last month.
The spokesperson also said that Dutch security researchers cracking the Oyster card had nothing to do with the 
decision, which had been in review for some time and was purely focussed on value for money."
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More at
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39458726,00.htm?r=10

Juha-Matti
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