(keitai-l) Re: what happened to Simpay

From: Pavitra Krishnamurthy <pavitra_at_julysystems.com>
Date: 07/02/05
Message-ID: <3F2E4889DA77794D854B2CD2CEA48A960197BE92@exchangeindia.bcubedinc.com>
The word is that the market is not ready- there is simply not enough
money to be made in mobile content sales yet- for a payment service of
the kind envisaged by the group behind SimPay.

Besides the costs involved in the actual reconciliation of the payments
would have been pretty high.

-pavitra

-----Original Message-----
From: keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net
[mailto:keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net] On Behalf Of Ken Chang
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 9:13 PM
To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Subject: (keitai-l) what happened to Simpay

I was doing regular checking and surprisingly found Simpay is gone. 
what were the problems?  and where are the Europeans/Vodafone going? 

when DoCommerce service was launched two years ago, there were about 
15 financial institutions serving 10 virtual shops, and they still 
have only 27 shops today.  I bet the turnover very low, but that's 
the only successful service we have.  I think one great thing with 
DoCoMo is that they are patient and determined (and they have money). 



		
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