(keitai-l) Re: Question concerning barcodes on a Keitai

From: Gerhard Fasol <fasol_at_eurotechnology.com>
Date: 07/26/04
Message-ID: <41050F8C.9010000@eurotechnology.com>
Yes, 2D barcode readers in convenience stores are
"standard", since DoCoMo is using this for 40 million
customers in 10,000 or so convenience stores.
(not that standard is sometimes a marketing term...)

Gerhard

Christopher Kobayashi wrote:
>>Yes. DoCoMo uses this for customers to pay the mobile phone bill
>>at convenience stores. The convenience store has a 2D bar code reader
>>which reads a numeric code from your phone, which has your billing
>>information and linked up with DoCoMo's server prints out you bill.
> 
> 
> How common are the 2D bar code readers in convenience stores (if you
> can comment without buying your report) ... ? ;)
> Is the QR Code readers pretty standard?
> 
> 
>>Wouldn't it be nice if there was one standard for embedding mobile data
>>in QR code?!
> 
> 
> At least they're agreeing on using a single 2D barcode standard ...
> 
> chriskk
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Received on Mon Jul 26 17:05:05 2004