Mobile phone micropayment
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Mobile phone micropayment is a system of micropayment using mobile phones that is currently used predominantly in developing countries although the potential market is global. [1]
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Mobile phone parking is a solution for payment of parking by use of a cellular phone. It is used both on on-street and off-street parking, but usually when a barrier is involved. Mobile Phone Parking may be said to substitue parking meters and pay and display machines. Parking wardens may enforce the parkings by license plate, transponder tags or barcode stickers.
Mobile Phone Parking offers both drivers and parking operators several distinct advantages. End users benefit from the convenience of being able to pay for parking from the comfort of their car with their mobile phone, and parking operators are not obliged to invest in either existing or new street-based parking infrastructures.
Mobile Phone Parking as a concept were established in the 1990, while commercialization started around 2000. A leading vendor in the business is the Scandinavian company Easy Park ASA.
[edit] Further reading
- The real digital divide, The Economist, Mar 10, 2005 [2]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Micro-payment systems and their application to mobile networks, InfoDev report, Jan 2006 accessed at [1]
