Title :
Payments through Mobile Phone
Author :
Aziz, Quratulain
Author_Institution :
Comput. Eng., Centre For Adv. Studies in Eng., Islamabad
Abstract :
Short message service (SMS) can prove to be a cheap, efficient and effortless cash replacer in today´s world taking a giant leap towards wireless era. Such billing applications involve tools like SMS gateway and protocols like SMPP (Short message peer-peer) to provide a flexible data communications interface for the transfer of short message data between external short message entities (ESME), routing entities (RE) and message centre (MC).The customer just has to SMS the pre-paid code and amount and nature of payment in the pre-defined format and is devoid of the fatigue of standing in long queues for paying bills
Keywords :
electronic messaging; mobile handsets; mobile radio; flexible data communications; message centre; mobile phone; paying bills; routing entities; short message entities; short message peer-peer; short message service; Application software; Data communication; Fatigue; GSM; Message service; Mobile handsets; Modems; Routing protocols; Timing; Transaction databases;
Conference_Titel :
Emerging Technologies, 2006. ICET '06. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Peshawar
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0502-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0503-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICET.2006.335987
