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American Roads Investments (ARI) is rolling out a mobile telephone application designed for convenient toll payment at gated toll facilities. To pay tolls with your mobile/cell phone you download the application - FreedomPassMobile (r) - and install it in either an Apple iPhone or an Android.

New Zealand's roads authority is asking for expressions of interest in developing mobile phone  based toll payments. New Zealand tollroads are being developed as all-electronic based on license plate read cameras. They don't use transponders.

Use of mobile phone messaging for toll collection has been demonstrated on the First Bosphorous toll bridge in Turkey. The system relies on video tolling plus the Short Message Service (SMS) that is commonly used on European standard GSM mobile telephones to make a toll payment. The text messaging also uploads the motorist's vehicle number plate and vehicle class to the toll operator.