(05 Jul 2014, 4:20 pm)Marcus wrote Yeah - never seen one of Chester's removed (yet), but I have seen a lot in the past few days have been covered over with leather because they're 'inactive'.
Yes, I do think the communication issues between the ETM and external card readers will be the reason why GNE were looking to see whether it was better without them or not.
Of course, although the cost may have been partly assisted by the BSOG (just ask Andreos about that), I'm sure GNE would have footed part of the bill too - otherwise every other operator would have also installed external card readers too.