Commencement of sale of the NEW CEPAS-Compliant ez-link card

EZ-Link will start selling its new ez-link cards which are CEPAS compliant on Monday 29th December 2008 , making them the first company to adopt the new Singapore Standard for Contactless ePurse Application. Being CEPAS-compliant, the new ez-link card can also be used with any other systems built on CEPAS across the transit and non-transit space giving their customers more payment options in 2009. Cardholders will be able to distinguish the new card from the existing ez-link card by the new card face design as well as the CEPAS logo which appears on the reverse of the card.

Starting with its anchor application - payment for public transport fares, EZ-Link together with its partner QB will progressively extend its payment services of the new card to all its current non-transit and retail payment applications like McDonalds, 7-Eleven and SMRT Taxis. The new ez-link cards can eventually be used in the next generation In-vehicle Unit for Electronic Road Pricing transactions and parking payments at Electronic Parking System (EPS) carparks. In preparation for the expected increased usage, the new card can store a value of up to $500.00, as compared to the maximum $100.00 stored value for the existing card. The increase in capacity for the stored value component of the new card enables users to have a multi-purpose card for use in the sectors of public transport, retail, ERP and parking at EPS carparks.