Micropayment Technology ın Croatia

We were impressed with Croatia's start implementing a system that let's you pay for small things with your cell phone.

When you park your car on the street in certain areas you can send a text message of your car license plate number to a four-digit number that is posted nearby. That puts the nominal one-hour parking charge onto your cell phone bill. When the hour is almost up you receive a text message asking if you would like to buy another hour of parking to which you can simply reply.

Similarly when you want to ride the tram in Zagreb you simply send a short standard text message to 8585 and you have just bought a 90-mı,inute pass. You get a text message confirmation back that you show to the conductor when you are asked for your ticket.