Investigating mobile payment: supporting technologies, methods, and use

In this paper we present a classification of mobile payment methods with their characteristics, advantages and disadvantages, and the results of a questionnaire-based survey on the interest of 130 youths in mobile payment for a movie ticket purchase service. We describe four mobile payment methods: Internet payment method, point of sale mobile payment method, payments for mobile commerce applications, and person-to-person mobile payment. The main results of the survey show that 76% of the respondents would be interested in buying movie tickets with a mobile phone, and 78% would use a service whereby their buying transactions would be charged on their mobile carrier bill.