BlackBerry maker Research in Motion in a scuffle with AT&T and T-Mobile in the control of mobile data that determine payment or dictate cell phone manufacturer or wireless carrier, the terms of a lucrative was $1.13 trillion industry. The Waterloo, Ontario-based company have add the mobile payment technology plans, known as near field communication or NFC, most of its devices with AT & T and T-Mobile Tüßling on important customer information – on the phone or on the SIM card.
That might not be much, but the impact is tremendous. This data is stored in the magnetic strip on credit cards to determine who controls the customer and the revenue from transactions with the traders, and the device has an electronic reader at the cashier beckoned.
AT & T and T-Mobile wants the information on their SIM cards, small chips of communication with the wireless networks, but RIM will use these credentials are stored on the BlackBerry device is encrypted.
Consumers would ultimately be better off to gain support as they can their SIM card from phone to phone exchange. RIM should prevail, customers can upgrade their BlackBerry smartphones, the carrier may be cut out of the loop would be bound.
RIM has already taken the first step and reaches from the banks to bypass the carriers, said people familiar with the matter. But AT & T and T-Mobile is part of a consortium of 800 mobile operators around the world, such as the GSM Association, GSMA and mobile payment system that is standardized famous race.
Verizon and Sprint use a different technology called CDMA, was not involved in the dispute, because the network does not use SIM cards. But the mobile phone network on a 4G technology LTE than or Long-Term Evolution, the unknown work.
“Many, if not most BlackBerry devices during the year in the NFC,” said RIM co-Chief Executive Jim Balsillie at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week.
Meanwhile, rivals Google and Apple is making their move. Google has released its Nexus S smartphone with integrated NFC, mobile payments while Apple decided to keep the iPhone 5, until the technology is mature.
In December, Google bought Zeta Wire, mysterious phone payment launch. The company is testing the mobile payment systems in New York and San Francisco over the next four months.
Who sets the standards for mobile payments is one of the most llucrative $1.13 trillion industry.
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