Good morning to all,
Had zero luck on the other i-mode list, so pls excuse
the cross post here. Have been assured the following is
rather trivial but fail to find the information in any
FAQs : just wondering, how are the subscriptions implemented
for official sites, from a developers' perspective ?
ie. Is there an API to call to add the subscription and
bill the customer ? Or does it involve redirecting, along
the same lines as some third-party billing solutions on
the wireline web today ?
Does the developer even have to manage his/her own
customer-subscription database ? Or does i-mode handle
everything on an ASP basis ?
Hoping somebody can enlighten me.
Thank you very much,
chas
> Excuse this rather clueless question.
>
> Just say I am an i-mode developer and I have my i-mode site.
> I want users to only be able to use it if they subscribe.
> (Assume that I've been lucky enough to become an official
> i-mode site too.)
>
> How do I manage/enable the subscription service ? I don't want
> to force the user to enter username/password - it's better to
> rely on just the phone number. So I want to :
>
> a) recognize the mobile phone number. Is this possible by
> querying NTT, the same way some WAP gateways provide the
> number ?
>
> b) work out if the mobile phone number is subscribed to my
> service. Do I maintain my own membership/subscription
> database of subscriber phone numbers, or does NTT do this
> all on an ASP basis ?
>
> c) how do I send a message to NTT to add Y100-300 to the
> user's bill ?
>
> Or, does NTT do all of this on a service basis and I just
> have to send a request asking "is he a paid subscriber ?"
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