MÁV-START Zrt. launched its Internet ticket sales system in 2008, enabling customers to buy train tickets avoiding the lines in fron of train ticket counters, even from home. Since November last year, passangers buying tickets in the system can not only print their tickets at the vending machines located in the stations but anywhere – even at home. Passangers used the Internet based train purchase option more than 1,2 million times so far, the service is becoming ever more popular.

From May 10 even those passangers can purchase tickets, seat reservations, as well as extra tickets for live animals and bicycles who so far distanced themselves from paying with bank cards through the Internet, as now they can choose the option of using their mobile phone credit balance payment method. The price of train tickets purchased this way is identical with tickets purchased any other way. Customers only need to pay for the additional charge of the SMS confirming the purchase, priced according to his tariff package. Shopping from the mobile phone credit balance can be done comfortably, in 24 hours a day, with the mimimum transaction limit of HUF 130 while the upper limit is HUF 7,500. Purchasing discounted tickets on this channel is not possible, so far only full fare tickets can be bought.

Train tickets can be ordered by logging in the MÁV-START Zrt. site (www.mav-start.hu

Zsolt Kővári, chief executive officer of MÁV-START Zrt. said that the introduction of payment for train tickets from the mobile phone credit balance is an important milestone in in modernizing ticket sales with the intent of improving customer satisfaction, and further developments are planned to follow.

Further information about mobile telephone payment is available atwww.mav-start.hu