Texas Rangers Use Tickets At Phone For Mobile Ticketing

Mobile phones are tickets to Rangers games

Starting today, your mobile phone can be your ticket to the game.

The Texas Rangers are among a handful of Major League Baseball teams to launch Tickets at Phone, a technology that sends a barcode to a mobile phone or device that's read by a scanner to gain entry to a game.

While the so-called mobile tickets today include only a bar code, officials hope to soon be able to target key customers with customized offers for tickets and merchandise over their mobile phones.

The Rangers' mobile ticketing technology was developed by MLB Advanced Media LP's unit Tickets.com and partner Mobiqa Ltd. of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Tickets.com rival Ticketmaster is also developing a mobile-ticketing technology and expects to launch it in Ireland this month and in the U.S. next year.

I also know that Ticketmaster is developing an authentication system for tickets as well that involves Physical World Connection.

Mbarc And Mobiqa Offer Breakthrough In Mobile Ticketing

Mbarc and Mobiqa realised a breakthrough in Mobile ticketing with realising the first self-service scanner fitted in ticket gates.

A leading UK public transport organisation Mobiqa selected the MbarcNewland M8 realising a seamless integration into 2 turnstiles creating convenience for passengers with mobile tickets.

The MbarcNewland M8, a sturdy, high performance and reliable build-in Mobile ticketing scanner is developed for integration into existing self-service systems like: Kiosks, turnstiles, self-service environments, etc.

MbarcNewland auto-ID validation for your mobile business. Just one single product for barcode and RFID reading. Mbarc’s validation all-in-one terminals offer 1D- & 2D-barcode (LCD & printed) and RFID (NFC) readers on location.

-Mobiqa are the world leaders in mobile ticketing and couponing based on the creation, delivery, and redemption of barcodes to mobile phones.

-Mobiqa’s products are available for SMS, MMS and WAP using 1D/2D barcodes.

-Mobiqa’s technology is available in over 30 countries, including the USA and China.

Offering barcodes on mobile phones is the evolution of paper tickets in public transport. Mobile ticketing is convenient and customers don't have to queue up at the ticket office or need a printout from home. Mobile phone ticketing means easy purchases, anywhere, any time and always your ticket with you on your phone. MbarcNewlands M8 enables convenience at the entrance gates scanning and validating Mobile tickets on the go.

Mobiqa recently introduced a mobile ticketing capabilities for Major League Baseball

How Mobile Ticketing From Tickets@Phone Works

Couple weeks ago I posted a story about MLB and the Washington Nationals using barcodes for mobile ticketing.

New A's Ballpark has a detailed summary of his experience using the mobile ticketing service from Tickets@Phone.

The A’s are one of three major league teams to employ the new service this season. This is smart because they lead the league in last minute ticket sales.

If you know who the third team using this mobile ticketing service, let me know.