(keitai-l) Re: Premium-priced SMS in Japan

Nina,

you are making a mistake here. You assume that m-commerce is all
about content only... there is much more, e.g. train tickets,
air tickets, bank transactions, buying or selling Hewlett-Packard
shares on the stock market etc....

I doubt you can use premium SMS, however exciting and fantastic
it is to pay for a couple of 1000 Hewlett-Packard shares...

Gerhard
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Nina Nordlund wrote:
>>intent of this question was, to my mind, not at all about SMS as a
>>messaging system but about SMS as a payment model.
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> yes, that was what I was after, and we are not intending to launch an SMS
> premium-based service model in Japan ;)
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> I know that SMS is not used in Japan, so I was wondering what is used
> instead for transaction-based payments. I got a quite good answer that the
> operators have now such a model in place (only for official content
> providers?) in addition to the subscription-based payment model, and then
> the creditcard payment is one possibility. It will be interesting to see,
> how the felica & edy and other mobile payment methods will become integrated
> with the mobile content purchases...
> I assume that you are (or will be) be able to pay for your mobile content
> using these payment methods as well.
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> Best, Nina
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: keitai-l-bounce_at_appelsiini.net [mailto:keitai-l-
>>bounce_at_appelsiini.net] On Behalf Of Curt Sampson
>>Sent: 16. joulukuuta 2004 6:04
>>To: keitai-l_at_appelsiini.net
>>Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Premium-priced SMS in Japan
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>>On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Arnold P. Siboro wrote:
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>>>Gerhard Fasol <fasol_at_eurotechnology.com> wrote:
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>>>> > I have a question about premium priced SMS.
>>>> > I know SMS is not widely used in Japan...
>>>>
>>>>"SMS is not widely used" is an exageration... actually SMS is almost
>>>>not used at all in Japan, except for some SPAM.
>>>
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