Cable / Telecom News

Wireless m-commerce


TORONTO – We’ve seen e-commerce, t-commerce and plain old commerce, but thanks to an intiative by the country’s big three wireless operators, we’re about to see m-commerce. Bell Mobility, Rogers Wireless and Telus Mobility, today announced the launch of Wireless Payment Services. The jointly-owned venture “will act as a mobile commerce, or m-commerce, gateway, facilitating secure wireless payment transactions while standardizing the user experience across Canadian wireless providers, devices and payment mechanisms,” says today’s press release. "With anytime, anywhere payments representing the next frontier of wireless service, Wireless Payment Services' mandate is to develop standardized, secure and easy-to-use mobile payment...