A couple of months ago I had to catch a bus from an unfamiliar location. Since I didn’t know if I had to hurry or not I accessed the mobile site of HUR. After entering the bus number, however, I was presented with a page saying it costs 1.50 kr to access the service. Now it’s not much, but at that moment I couldn’t be bothered and just hoped I would catch the bus.
Last weekend I wanted to find out when the first bus came Sunday morning. I didn’t feel I had a choice and selected OK to pay the 1.50 kr. At that point, however, I was presented with an error:
Unfortunately, we can read your mobile number which this service requires. This error probably occured because you’re trying to view it in a normal web browser, or your cell phone is set up to use an internet gateway…
(My translation, probably not 100% correct.)
Well duh, you don’t think I’ll be using the WAP gateway as you suggest? I have better things to use my time and money on than surfing on my cell phone using wap. With GPRS at least I don’t have to wait three days trying to access the site. Seems HUR have elected to not get any customers on this service as everyone I know use an internet gateway and GPRS instead of WAP.
wow! how things have changed! I’m pretty certain tha tabout a year ago or less I accessed HUR via my cell to get bus times, and it was free and easy!
btw google’s web service is excellent, here I can use it for movie times and everything!
Their mobile web service? I’ll have to try that, I don’t know if I’ll get much out of it here in Denmark, but it’ll be fun to look at either way.
Over here (montreal) we can access stm.info and get schedules and even route suggestions for free (just enter starting and ending point and desired time of departure/arrival and it’ll give you 3 suggestions!)
Also, all bus stops have a number assigned and by calling the stm you can get the next three busses of any route at that stop.
I think HUR is a little too focused on profit… seem to have forgotten they’re supposed to provide a service.
Why don’t you call them and complain? Where does it say you can’t use GPRS?? Tell them you want your 1.50 back.
They never got my 1.50 because they couldn’t figure out my phone number.