Re: RE: UKNM: Re: Mobile Commerce

[Adam Atkinson]

As I recall, this is already done in Finland with soft drink vending

machines. Bear in mind that the Finns are a few years ahead in terms of

usage, it'll follow over here pretty soon

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From: Dave Evans <

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Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 9:25 AM

Subject: RE: RE: UKNM: Re: Mobile Commerce



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

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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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