RE: RE: UKNM: Re: Mobile Commerce

[Dave Evans]

Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 09:42:06 +0100

From: "Gary Pharo" <

gary [dot] pharocommtouch [dot] com

>

Subject: RE: UKNM: Re: Mobile Commerce


>snip<


And as a general comment, I can't believe that at least one of the leading

players (be that Vodafone or whoever) aren't looking to capitalise on their

ability to simply and efficiently bill the end user from micro-payments up.

Now that would be interesting huh - no need for a credit card, or any other

information - I just key in my phone number (or it gets recorded

automatically by some form of a cookie) and the charge appears on my phone

bill at the end of the month!! (and before you start.... you know that I am

not technically gifted enough to qualify this - but one thing I believe is

that there is a way)


Vodafone the new World Bank ? >snip<



Technically you can do this kind of thing on the Internet now - the thing

that's stopped your telco taking payments for services on your phone bill is

regulatory, not technical - BT for instance, are not allowed to bill you for

non-BT services on your bill (and I think they're restricted on the services

they offer themselves that can be added to your bill). Doesn't mean it won't

change in the future, but do we want to give telcos this kind of power.


Dave


David Evans

New Media Director

EB Media PLC.

Tel: +44 (0)1344 464182

E:

dave [dot] evanseb [dot] uk [dot] com

http://www.eb.uk.com

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