Sending Money Via Mobile Phones

from the send-money-now dept

While there's been a lot of talk lately about various mobile payment systems like DoCoMo's FeLiCa (which is similar to Moneta in Korea, Dexit in Canada, and Speedpass in the US among others) it looks like the Korea Financial Telecommunications & Clearings Institute is trying a slightly different approach, where users will be able to send money to anyone just by knowing their mobile phone number. This isn't just for mobile-to-mobile payments, but for any payment, so that someone doesn't have to reveal their bank account info. In many ways it's similar to PayPal, but instead of using an email address, you can pay to a mobile phone number. Of course, if I remember correctly, this was actually PayPal's original plan... to let people easily transfer cash between PDAs.
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  • identicon
    dorpus, 16 Aug 2004 @ 12:06pm

    Prostitution Paradise

    Now schoolgirls can make thousands with their "part time jobs".

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    • identicon
      giordano bruno, 16 Aug 2004 @ 6:44pm

      Re: Prostitution Paradise

      Tahes a sexy tool to promote new uses.
      In 1978 "teletext" on TV failed,
      now I have it via 'SetTopBox Digital decoder"

      Electronic cash failed on PCs,
      may succeed on cell phones,
      why?
      just because its sexy
      Giordano Bruno

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  • identicon
    data64, 16 Aug 2004 @ 1:08pm

    nice

    Couple this with Destructive Mobile Phone Virus and it makes ones wonder if anyone learned anything from MS and mistakes with Windows security.

    link to this | view in chronology ]

    • icon
      Mike (profile), 16 Aug 2004 @ 1:10pm

      Re: nice

      The details on that are important... it wasn't a mobile phone virus, as the story makes it out, but copy protection gone wrong. The goal was to add a fee for those who copied the game.

      link to this | view in chronology ]

  • identicon
    aNonMooseCowherd, 16 Aug 2004 @ 9:34pm

    negative "payments"

    What happens if the amount is negative? Can you transfer money from someone else's account to yourself?

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  • identicon
    Antti, 17 Aug 2004 @ 2:28am

    We already have it

    Go, select "Payments" and then "Mobile payments" for an overview.

    link to this | view in chronology ]


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