Mobile Electronic Commerce: Emerging Issues

  • Authors:
  • Aphrodite Tsalgatidou;Jari Veijalainen

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • EC-WEB '00 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies
  • Year:
  • 2000

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

There are many definitions for Mobile Electronic Commerce (M-Commerce). We define M-Commerce as any type of transaction of an economic value having at least at one end a mobile terminal and thus using the mobile telecommunications network. The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) plays an important role in m-commerce by optimizing Internet standards for the constraints of the wireless environment and thus bridging the gap between Internet and mobile world. Mobile Network Operators can play a major role in m-commerce by being strategically positioned between customers and content/service providers. In this paper we investigate the roles the operator can play in m-commerce and discuss respective problems and emerging issues.