The bad news for traffic users in Ile-de-France is that they are used to checking travel with their smartphone: Orange and Chos SIM cards are no longer compatible with this system. The new solution will be implemented next year.
From the start of the 2019 academic year, users of Android smartphones equipped with the Orange or Chos SIM chip will be able to verify their traffic with their phones at the terminals of buses, metros, RERs, trams and trams in the Paris region. For them, the difficulty of the Navigo Pass is over, everything goes through the smartphone.
Samsung Galaxy smartphones are still functional
Unfortunately, this option is no longer practical. Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM), responsible for public transport in the region, and Orange ended their partnership at the end of last year. Parisian. Since then, SIM cards issued by the operator are no longer compatible with this verification system, which requires a special component in older SIM cards. The number of people using this “validator” function seems to be low, with a maximum of a few thousand, which may have hastened its conclusion.
Île-de-France Mobilites explains this ” The service will continue until you change your SIM card: you can continue to purchase tickets and verify them with your phone 2, which is confirmed by orange. But if you change your SIM card (for example when opening a new line) it is over and you have to go back to Navigo.
The only exception: Owners of Samsung Galaxy smartphones can always use it regardless of the operator. After all, it represents only a small proportion of public transport users. However a new solution is under development on the IDFM page: it will be available for all Android smartphones by mid-2022, regardless of operator. This still excludes iPhone users, many of whom are bit disconnected.
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