Link: O2 and Vodafone launch an internet and mobile phone payment system - Vodafone.
Düsseldorf/Munich, 25 January 2008 A new payment service that is being launched by O2 and Vodafone means secure online payments by mobile phone or PC from spring onwards. ...
"Mobile phones are like keys and wallets. People don't leave their homes without them and they'll be even more important items in future when they incorporate functions such as mobile payments."
.... customers order products via mobile portals or online shops and pay by entering their mobile phone number and a password. Then a text message is sent to their mobile phone. All they have to do is confirm it and the amount is direct debited from their account. Prepaid customers, customers with company mobile phones and customers who use other providers' networks have to register once to use the online payment service free of charge.
Bravissimi.
L'importante e' che non escludano altri operatori dalla possibilita' di partecipare.
In Italia, in assenza di una apertura dalla banca d'Italia, non e' possibile. ma il Governatore Draghi si e' espresso piu' volte sulla possibile apertura..
