ADVANCED SMARTCARD: Your ticket on the train just leaving the station?

A recent update to the Advanced Smartcard Technologies web site quotes David Braddock as saying, “Not only is this a momentous event for the NoW smartcard but it is also a momentous event for ITSO and Ecebs. The Blackpool system is operated using ISAMs supplied by Ecebs and the Ecebs AMS / HOPS back office system operated for NoWcard by the Royal Bank of Scotland. The incredible success achieved by Blackpool Transport in such a short space of time is testament to their capabilities but also of the underlying ITSO technology designed and supplied by Ecebs. It bodes well for the further ITSO deployments underway around the country and the growing International interest."

Does any reader of, or poster on this board have any idea of what this current supply contract could have been be worth financially to Ecebs, and more importantly in terms of its potential to contribute to the achievement of the forecast for current years profits?

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