Pango Mobile Parking to launch in Washington, D.C., as well as several MD cities, early this year [VIDEO]

Pango Mobile Parking, the pay-by-phone parking service, will expand its operations to several cities in Maryland as well as into Washington, D.C., in early 2013, reports BmoreMedia.
Pango hasn’t yet announced which cities.
Download Pango for iOS, Android and Blackberry here.

Founded in Israel in 2005, Pango’s Baltimore office is located in Mount Vernon. The service, which is activated either by mobile app or via SMS, works “when users park on-street, parking lot or parking garage, [and] enter the area’s designated zone number to activate parking charges,” reports BmoreMedia. When Pango users return to their vehicles, they stop the parking service and receive a bill from Pango.
While a similar effort to what Federal Hill-based startup Parking Panda does, the approach is different. Parking Panda allows users to reserve parking spots at parking garages ahead of time, and incorporates a peer-to-peer element that allows homeowners to rent out their unused driveways for drivers in need of a parking spot.
Watch a video about how Pango Mobile Parking works:
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