UKNM: Re: Mobile Commerce

[Tom Hume]

At 01:53 18/08/2000 +0100, UKNM Digest wrote:


>   * With Bluetooth, you won't have a cable between your phone and

earpiece.

>    * Which means that you don't have to take your phone out to take a

call.

>    * Which means that your e-wallet doesn't need you to take the phone out

>to

>      make a transaction.


How comfortable are you with the idea that you don't have to authorise

transactions? That your phone can spend your money without your having to

authorise it?


>   * And e cash enabled phones have been on trial for over a year.


Interactive TV services have been trialled for decades, they're still not

in every home ;)


>    * So expect to see a mobile phone that can carry out m-commerce

>      transactions in (say ) 12 - 18 months.


I think that's a bit of a leap of reasoning. You'll need (a) appreciable

number of phones out there to drive (b) appreciable numbers of merchants

who can accept payment this way. That's more than 12 months off - WAP

phones have been out for 9 months now, there's still few of them about.



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