Re: UKNM: Paying via the phone bill...

[James Bruce]

Sounds like an excellent idea but what about the security implications of

GSM, roaming and vending machines. How does the phone operator validate the

purchase.  I suppose with land lines and phone billing you have a registered

delivery address to anchor into. But with GSM and vending machines how do

you / can you tell that the purchase was made by the authentic phone user?


James Bruce

Managing Director

WebWeaver Media Construction Ltd.

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Date: 15 February 1999 13:50

Subject: UKNM: Paying via the phone bill...


At 4:16 pm +0000 12/2/99, Leslie Bunder wrote:


>Mmmm.  I quite like the idea of paying for things via the phonebill.


In Finland, you can pay for a number of travel-related things via your

GSM bill.   There are soft drinks machines, car washes, parking places

etc. that have a phone number on them rather than a slot for coins.


For the drinks machine, for example, you call the number on the machine

from your GSM, a can pops out and your phone bill is charged for it.


A couple of environmental factors come in to play:


- everybody (and that is Everybody) has a GSM phone; and


- it is usually FAR too cold to be digging around for loose change.


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