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Each phone geek likes to discuss, how long will it be before we recycle our wallets in favor of paying for things with our phones in the real world — but what about online?
Tailings similar announcement, Verizon, a few months ago, T-Mobile has just announced that they open them to the carrier billing system for online retailers, allowing the T-Mobile customers for charging things, purchased on the Internet (whether it is purchased for Smartphone, tablet or computer a good ol' fashion) the right of their monthly bill.
There are also many businesses competing in this space right now, so what is the T-Mobile, in partnership with? ER ... almost all of them, actually. At bat, T-Mobile is calling on BillToMobile, PayFone, Zong and Boku, OpenMarket for food stuff, and they say that "additional strategic billing services partners" will be added as time goes on. Sounds messy.
Worried about lil ' Timmy snatching all porn, he can find, and charging for his Sidekick? T-Mobile, said that the age-appropriate content block will be provided for parents, while system purchase validation-stage should make it a bit harder for would-be thieves to buy things in your name. Each purchase will be broken into your account at the end of this month, which, if nothing else, should serve as a poignant reminder that buying a new tractor for farm Farmville is probably not the best way to record a pay per week.
T-Mobile does not include any specific providers or retailers who will offer up the charge for T-Mobile at the start, but it looks like they are going for small game: to purchase the examples given are "the purchase of digital games, online games and social networking, music, video and other digital content." In other words, it will probably be awhile before you charge that Bugatti Veyron Wireless Bill.
T-Mobile carrier bills should go live at his first few sites later this month.
T-Mobile is a mobile telephone operator headquartered in Bonn, Germany. It is a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom. T-Mobile has 101 million subscribers, making it the sixth largest mobile worlds ...
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