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Best i recall a large part about this was that the carriers had their own banks that could issue credit cards that was linked to the phone.
by digi_owl 10y ago
Best i recall a large part about this was that the carriers had their own banks that could issue credit cards that was linked to the phone.
- nolok 10y agoDon't they also have a system similar to the French "net pay" (or whatever the name) where you can pay and have it billed on your next carrier bill? Here even Google play supports it, and while not the major payment system it does remove all friction from online payment.
- fenomas 10y agoThey may well have done for legal reasons, but the point for consumers was that you could find a product in a web page and hit purchase, and the cost would just show up as a line item in your phone bill, without any signups or credit card numbers. Similar deal with NFC payments. They launched here in 2004, and were fairly widespread by the time smartphones arrived. It used to be very common for people to move "up" to a smartphone and then be surprised to find out how many features they'd given up.