Archive for the 'Payment' Category

Mobile Payment

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

My MEX articles have caused quite a few people to contact me about mobile payment. Payment is fundamental to most products/services and there are lot of people out there trying to understand what’s available. There’s an executive level summary at Trinity College Dublin entitled ‘State of the Art Review of Mobile Payment Technology‘. While it’s […]

Mobile Payment

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

Currently the main way of paying for 3rd party services is via Premium SMS. Typically the developer gets about 60% and the network operator keeps 40%. The payment, and that for any of the network operators’ own information services, ends up on the customer’s bill.
Sharewire is an innovative service that accepts Paypal, Interactive Voice Response (premium rate numbers) […]