Mobile payments: ‘the operators are going along for the ride’

If you’re at all interested in mobile payments, Paul Ruppert has a heck of a lot of data linked on his blog at the link below – definitely worth a look!

Link: Mobile Point View by Paul Ruppert

A compendium of 56 Mobile Payments press releases over the last six months (a ton of reading if you click on the links) reveals that notwithstanding the mobile payments debates and dialogue centered in the carrier centric mobile industry, the real action is already occurring with trials in the financial services and retail segments, plus through government central bankers around the world. These are the concrete emerging COIs (centers of influence) for this developing market. The operators are just going to go along for the ride….

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