Motorola backs Pay-Buy-Mobile scheme
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14 Jun 2007, Robert Jaques , V3
Motorola has backed the GSM Association's Pay-Buy-Mobile initiative, saying that it will "potentially participate" in trials to drive the development and adoption of mobile payment technology.
Motorola also promised to provide feedback to GSMA Near Field Communications Technical Guidelines white papers, and to work with standardisation bodies such as ETSI and the NFC Forum to further provide input to the development process.
"Participating in the GSMA Pay-Buy-Mobile Initiative further advances Motorola's goal of bringing the promise of mobile payments and financial services to customers around the globe," said Alan Wright, a senior director for mobile devices at Motorola.
Do you agree?
Do they have a choice?
Motorola is behind on NFC. They bought Matrix, then Symbol for RFID, but the corporate honchos did not realize that NFC was the next big thing (still waiting to see if iPHONE has it). Anyway, Nokia gets out of the gate bigtime and slows down possibly because their phone may not be as secure as they want, or just timing. Then Kyocera gets in the NFC act with trial as I speak. Their phone is even biometric (cool). This week the underdog BENQ gets in the act with an NFC. Kyocera and BenQ in the game because of Microsoft mobile and the NFC phone leader SIRIT.
Anyway, like I said, Motorola has no choice because NFC is the revolution that mobile has been awaiting.
Posted by NFCreader, 15 Jun 2007