... Ericsson, Nokia and Motorola are the lynchpins of the Global M-commerce Standard alliance's mission to develop standards to reduce the time to market for mobile infrastructure technologies. In 2001 credit card companies Visa, MasterCard and American Express joined forces in an unprecedented way to create the Mobile Payment Forum to create technical standards for m-commerce to authenticate cardholder identities and ... infrastructure) technologY, provide the basis for a secure trading channel. With the added protection of PIN-codes deployed both for SIM card-based transactions and for the...

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