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emaining 43 stations with equipment alone.

However, it all comes down not only to hardware, but also to software. In Moscow, uploading a "digital copy" of a face and linking a card for payment is done through a mobile transport application, which has no analogue in St. Petersburg. Let us recall that even for paying for trips through the "Unified Card of St. Petersburgers" there is currently only a web service, which has not yet been adapted for mobile devices.

It is clear that more money is concentrated in Moscow, says Denis Kuskov, CEO of the Telecom Daily agency. "But even in cities that are noticeably inferior to St. Petersburg in terms of budget - Kaliningrad, Tula and others - much more noticeable events are taking place in terms of the introduction of new technologies. For some reason, St. Petersburg is not visible at all in this sense," the expert notes.


The practical benefit of introducing luxembourg whatsapp number database Face Pay in the metro, apart from the temptation of the authorities to expand their ability to monitor citizens, is also not obvious. On the one hand, it is really more convenient to just look into the camera than to look for a Podorozhnik in your pocket or wallet. And during the pandemic, the advantages of completely contactless payment became even more evident.

At the same time, for example, biometric payment is unlikely to be able to solve the transport problem of increasing the capacity of the vestibule. As Ivan Vergazov, a transport engineer and the author of the telegram channel "Fairytale Designer", explains, even now people pass through the turnstiles in the metro practically without stopping.

"As an antagonist, you can look at the turnstiles at railway stations, which read barcodes poorly and take a long time to process information. Payment by bank cards in the metro is also not the fastest, but, in essence, it is the same as biometrics. The question is in the speed of information exchange with banks, and whether a card, a face or a finger is counted is a secondary issue," the expert explains.

Progress marches slowly
But for almost 4 years of biometric payment in Moscow, the city administration has failed to make it popular among residents, even though one ride with Face Pay costs only 50 rubles. This is 4 rubles cheaper than with the Troika card, and 11 rubles cheaper than with a bank card or smartphone.

As the deputy head of the State Unitary Enterprise "Moscow metro" for the development of customer services and work with passengers Zhanna Ermolova, currently 320 thousand users are registered in the biometric payment system, at the moment 82 million passes at the station have been made using it.

According to the Moscow Department of Transport, Face Pay was used 32 million times in 2022. Considering that about 2.15 billion trips were made on the metro and the Moscow Central Circle during the same period, passengers using biometrics account for only 1.5% of traffic. Although in October 2021, plans were announced to attract 5-10% of passengers to this payment method within 1-2 years.