Buying goods with GSM is not for production, just demostration.
On the vending machine is a 'free dial' number which you then call, go
through an IVR, and then the machine is signalled to credit you, then you
press the button and oila, you can buy a coke. The same problems occur
with this system as with the cmode system:
1. Network costs are too high (and are not offset through significant
savings through elimination of the cash handling function--after all the
trucks still have to go around and replenish the drinks, the cash handling
is just a small incremental cost of this function)
2. Convenience is not achieved
-----Original Message-----
From: ext Ian Morrison [mailto:ian@synapsx.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 5:13 PM
To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Cmode experience
>One thing you can't do with Cmode at this time is to purchase
>a Coke and charge it to the mobile phone bill - which is what
>the hype is often about: using the mobile phone as a purse.
>I guess the reason for this is security.
One area in which the GSM world is ahead of DoCoMo? To my recollection you
can use SMS to buy cokes (and, here in Singapore, various local brews) from
vending machines in many trials around the GSM world. The Infocomm
Development Authority (IDA) is also developing standards for cross operator
billing system interfaces.
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Received on Wed Sep 5 21:06:20 2001