En un esfuerzo en común, varias empresas, tanto de pagos, servicios y telecomunicaciones se unen en una voz para fiscalizar las transacciones electrónica, máxime las que tengan que ver con NFC.
Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Google, ISIS, Paypal, Verifone y Intuit han unido fuerza para crear la Electronic Transaction Association el cuál velara por los mejores intereses del consumidor y ayudará a la unificación de servicios de repagas electrónico en un esfuerzo que todo se trabaje al a par y que este todo el mundo trabajando en la misma página.
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ETA Launches Committee To Guide Emerging Mobile Payments Industry
Mobile Payments Committee Will Include All Four Major Mobile Network Operators and
Develop and Implement Industry-Wide Solutions for Mobile Payments
WASHINGTON, DC ? The Electronic Transactions Association, the trade association of the global
electronic payments industry, today launched its new Mobile Payments Committee, an industry-wide
task force of representatives from top companies in the innovative market of mobile payments, including
all four major mobile network operators – AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon. The Mobile Payments
Committee will develop and implement industry-wide solutions to the complex policy and business
issues surrounding the emergence of mobile payments in the U.S and globally.
“Mobile payments represent a game-changing business opportunity for our industry, and ETA’s mission
is to help our member companies succeed in this business,” said ETA Chief Executive Officer Jason
Oxman. “Our industry must work collaboratively to ensure that the regulatory and business environment
promotes innovation and cooperation. As the trade association of the payments industry, ETA is the hub
of activity in mobile payments, and our Mobile Payments Committee will help ensure that consumers
and merchants have access to an efficient, reliable and secure mobile payments system.”
The Mobile Payments Committee is chaired by Jackie Moran, Executive Director of Federal Relations
for Verizon, and includes representatives from ETA member companies engaged in all aspects of
mobile commerce, including credit card networks, processors, mobile network operators, developers,
financial institutions and device manufacturers. ETA also announced today that all four of the nation’s
major mobile network operators – AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon – have become ETA member
companies and will participate in the Mobile Payments Committee.
“As a nascent industry, the mobile payments market is just beginning to realize its full potential as a
robust enabler of global electronic commerce,” said Moran. “The Mobile Payments Committee is
designed to ensure that the early stages of mobile payments are handled in the best possible way: With
insight and ingenuity from all the players – private as well as public sector — involved in the exciting
future of mobile payments.”
Este movimiento tiene sentido, puesto a que el “fun” de todo esto es que a través de NFC, puedes utilizar tu equipo móvil como método de pago y obviamente Google Wallet será el protagonista en todo esto, adicional de las distintas opciones de pagos que se desarrollarán y es natural que no sería suficiente en dejar al gobierno federal o a los estatales manejar todo esto. Un 90% no pueden con su infraestructura, van a poder con algo de alto calibre.
