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Dr. FAZAL PHONED A BETTER WAY

Tuesday June 5,2007:Carrying a walletful of credit cards and loyalty cards prompted mobile communications specialist Dr. Fazal Raheman to think 'there must be a better way'.
Now there is - Fonekey, a new system that will use the ubiquitous mobile phone as a secure means of access to everything from hotel rooms to cash dispensers.
For the moment, the hotel application is leading the way, but Raheman is confident that it will soon become the multi-purpose device that he envisages.
His creative leap was to couple a radio-frequency tag to a mobile phone, backed by specially-written software , thus providing a unique secure identification tool.
Fonekey enables a user to book a hotel room to his own specification online, go straight to the room on arrival to find it ready just as he had ordered, log purchases during his stay, and leave whenever he wants - without ever having to visit the ckeck-in desk.
Billing is automatically charged according to the guest's credit card and loyalty card details.
The system is currently being used in a pilot scheme in India and will be followed up with a similar trial in France later in the year. The Hotel Show is its first large-scale marketing exposure and Raheman is confident that it will transform the way hotel stay transactions have traditionally been handled.
Fonekey will replace loyalty cards for regular customers, giving them a new level of convenience while reducing administrative and production costs for operators.
After making the online booking, the guest receives a PIN number that he dials on reaching his destination. The phone is then activated to become a pass key for all transactions on arriving at the hotel.
The system has been under development for more than two years, and is a joint venture between Indian and US technology, with company headquarters in New York. US patents have been filed for the system, described by Raheman as the "the only one of its kind".
"I see this becoming a far better way than carrying different credit cards and loyalty cards," he says. "The in-built security is very high, and we will have toll-free numbers to report lost or stolen phones."
"And there's added security factor in that people always realise very quickly if they lose their mobile phones - within hours at the very most. Sometimes, it can be days or even weeks before they become aware of a missing credit card."

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Farmingdale, NY 11735
Tel.: +1-516-7769211
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