Fandango, the nation's largest movie ticket provider, is expanding its service further into the mobile arena by adding Cingular to its roster of cellular partners.
Photo: Fandango Sells Movie Ticket Deal to Cingular Photo 1
Earlier this month Fandango, which relied solely on selling tickets through the Internet, began migrating from PCs by partnering with Sprint Nextel offering movie ticketing and information and movie-related text-messaging.
"Moviegoers are often attached at the hip to their mobile devices," Fandango CEO Art Levitt said, adding that the service's traffic has doubled from month to month. "Now Cingular Wireless users can quickly, easily and discreetly check reviews, showtimes and purchase tickets."
By going to mobile.fandango.com wireless users can obtain tickets, comprehensive movie information including reviews, showtimes, theater amenities, directions and maps, and downloadable offerings such as movie-related ringtones, wallpapers and games.
Buying movie tickets on a phone still has a long way to go... it's just too inconvenient.
2. Posted by Binx75075
Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:21 am
I could've sworn that I saw a news story that you can purchase tickets on your cell, they'll e-mail you an image of a barcode, the theatre scans that image with their scanner, & you're all set to go.
3. Posted by elmo01
Thu Mar 23, 2006 6:56 am
I could've sworn that I saw a news story that you can purchase tickets on your cell, they'll e-mail you an image of a barcode, the theatre scans that image with their scanner, & you're all set to go.
yup ya did... somewhere in the news forum a while back... its common practice in Japan for anything from a movie ticket to a can of coke (the vending machines have an IR port)
4. Posted by steva11
Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:58 pm
in japan, the movie ticket barcode can appear on the screen, the cashier at the movie scans the barcode on the screen and it goes through. that is sweet.
5. Posted by stargrl357
Sat Mar 25, 2006 10:56 am
that sounds like what a company called Mobile Box Office is doing in the US.
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