The i-mode billing deal in general terms:
Vendor Perspective:
The vendor contracts with DoCoMo.
The vendor gets from a customer a DoCoMo-certified application for its
service.
The vendor allows access from those customers.(via the uniqe identifier) to
its contents
The vendor is then paid by DoCoMo according to those applications.
Depending on the service the list of approved customers (IDs) can/must be
updated very frequently. It is up to the vendor to control access to its
contents. If somebody not approved by DoCoMo is allowed in, DoCoMo will not
pay for it.
DoCoMo perspective:
A customer/handset requests a fee-based service in a secure way (ie.
imputing a PIN selected at contract time). Required information is passed on
to the site (ie. unique ID). DoCoMo bills the customer and pays the vendor.
Customer Perspective:
The customer visits a site, and applies for a fee-based service, this is
registered by DoCoMo and the site.
The customer is billed by DoCoMo for the services.
Note:
All data traffic goes through DoCoMo servers, it is up to DoCoMo to analyze
it or not. If DoCoMo is handling the billing it will watch it.
Vincent J. Luna, Director
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on 01.7.5 8:45 AM, Henry Minsky at hqm@ai.mit.edu wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> So I guess the question then is what steps does the vendor actually need
> to take to bill a customer - I have heard that vendors who have a billing
> relationship
> with DoCoMo get a special keitai-unique ID number attached to each HTTP access
> from imode customers. Does the vendor have to send that ID number and the
> customer's
> PIN number back to DoCoMo in some manner order to get credited?
>
> Or does DoCoMo somehow snoop
> on the whole transaction (maybe the pages where the user actually "makes
> the purchase" are redirected through a DoCoMo's server site somehow) ?
>
> Thanks,
> Henry
>
>
>
>
> At 04:56 PM 7/5/01 +0900, you wrote:
>> Henry,
>>
>> I don't know what you mean by "imode official vendors".
>> If you mean the information providers which are on the
>> "offical menu list", they only get the billing data from DoCoMo,
>> in case the customer does not pay the DoCoMo phone bill for a long
>> time (several months). That's part of the payment conditions,
>> which everyone who signs up to an imode site has to agree to.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Gerhard Fasol
>> http://www.eurotechnology.com/imode/faq.html
>>
>>
>> Henry Minsky wrote:
>>>
>>> I have a question which someone asked, that may have been covered here
>>> before, but
>>> I cannot find the reference:
>>>
>>> With imode official vendors, does the vendor ever get info to bill the
>>> customer directly,
>>> or if not, how do they pass on to DoCoMo the billing information for each
>>> customer?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Henry
>>>
>>> [ Did you check the archives? http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/ ]
>>
>> [ Did you check the archives? http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/ ]
>
>
> [ Did you check the archives? http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/ ]
>
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