An appropriate use of mobile and wireless technology has given birth to Mobile Ticketing. It is the latest and the most convenient way of purchasing tickets. Consumers no longer have to wait in long queues for buying tickets of movies, concerts, trains, planes or any football or soccer matches. In traditional method, paper tickets were having few disadvantages; like difficulty in receiving tickets at proper time; high cost of delivery of tickets through registered mails; worrying about loosing the tickets.

Mobi-tickets or mobile ticketing freed you from these above disadvantages. Within a short span of time, you’ll receive your mobi-tickets into your mobile set. Mobi-tickets are unique electronic barcodes which are sent to the buyers via SMS, MMS or EMS. Then the tickets are redeemed at the venue by simply scanning the mobile phone displayed with barcodes with a standard scanner. Symbol MC50, Symbol MC70 and Symbol DS6608 are few of the scanner names used for scanning barcodes of the mobi-ticket.

Mobile ticketing are having quite a number of advantages, like, they are cheaper than paper tickets which has a cost of printing and then posting those tickets to the consumers. Thus, it reduces the delivery and operational cost. The distribution of tickets can be absolutely guaranteed and it is done instantly. Since the consumers are not concerned about delivery of tickets, so they are more interested to buy them. As a result, there is a huge increase in the sale of tickets. There is no need to be worried about loosing mobi-tickets, since they are not just like traditional paper tickets which can be misplaced anytime anywhere. Consumers had even found it quite helpful, since, there is no need to queue up at the counters for collecting paper tickets. Unlike paper tickets, mobi-tickets can be cancelled if necessary and can even be re-issued effortlessly with the prior advantages of security and versatility. Finally organizers can properly track attendance at an event automatically and in real time.

Thus, we can conclude with the say that mobile ticketing is an ultimate way of providing better services to their customers.