RE: UKNM: Re: Mobile Commerce

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He nailed WAP but not M-commerce in general?  IMHO WAP is a con-job. They

designed it, paid for it and now they have to sell it.  We could have

I-mode, where the phone is hooked up the whole time for free.  And colour

but you need to stall these things to make money.  Look at the idea that in

Japan it can be done but here no.  Not yet.  We are being spoon fed the

technology and we are almost two years behind.  More people use M-commerce

in Japan than land lines to surf the net(phone calls to the internet cost a

lot more there).


http://www.japon.net/imode/ If you want to see where we will be in a year or

two.


As far as I know network theory the maximum bandwidths that can be obtained

through different media; Optical, copper and Microwave. Microwave wins hands

down.  It can handle 10 times that of a large bundle of fiber optical cable.

So the technology we have has to catch up with the science we have had for a

while.  The future of m-commerce is here the science is here its just the

details that need looking into.  Personally I can not wait to unlock myself

from this desk and do some work in a park.




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Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 09:42

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Subject: RE: UKNM: Re: Mobile Commerce



IMHO, the main barriers to successful m-commerce are:


1. Low penetration of enabled devices.

2. Confusing and difficult to operate handsets (with the operators making

life even more difficult by trying to set up a closed network).

3. Speed.

4. Security.

5. The lack of available information, in an easy to read format - hence

point 1.

6. The cost (around 5p per minute).

7. The lack of available handsets.


Now this all seems rather reminiscent of the barriers to entry that stopped

people getting online (in the UK at least), 3 or 4 years ago.


In it's current format, WAP has little to offer, and is relatively

expensive. However, as the operating system moves to GPRS then UMTS - and

things like graphics, video and the colourful things that brighten our lives

become available at a decent speed - the take up should increase (again, not

unlike faster modems and Freeserve did for the industry as a whole).


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 ?


Cheers

Gary


Gary Pharo

UK Sales Manager

www.commtouch.com

gary [dot] pharocommtouch [dot] com

The Worldwide Leader in Integrated Email and Messaging Outsourcing Services


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