How about an e-coin? It just remembers
who you are long enough to tell the
vending machine, so that if you forget
to pick up your change, nobody can
use it to buy a Lexus on your account.
And cheap enough that the Japanese
mint could just give them away in the
name of "stimulating consumer-demand-
led economic growth".
We'll put Obuchi on the front, the
DoCoMo Shinjuku tower on the back.
Most vending machines already have
cellular links for remote inventory
management. Could they be tricked up
to ask DoCoMo etc. "who's standing
in front of me right now?"
-m
leap@gol.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Ron Faris <RFaris@Scient.com>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 2:07 AM
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: [Fwd: DoCoMo & Coke]
> "The second problem is even worse, namely, why on earth the
> user still has to stuff physical cash into the i-vending
> machine, instead of just having the charge appear on the
> phone bill at the end of the month...."
>
> agree with this point...what technical constraint led to this business
> decision? It seems inconsistent with all other paid content billing
(i.e.,
> consolidated on the NTT bill at the end of the month)...what happened
here?
> anyone...anyone?...
[ excessive quoting removed ]
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Received on Fri Mar 30 06:54:54 2001