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The three companies that founded the MeT
(Mobile Electronic Transaction) initiative in April, Ericsson, Motorola
and Nokia announced that Siemens has joined the initiative.
The four companies will work together to jointly develop an open and
common industry framework for secure mobile electronic transactions. The
inclusion of Siemens in MeT is an important step towards the
initiative's goal of facilitating fast adoption of trusted mobile
commerce services.
The first MeT Workshop took place
in Amsterdam on October 16-18 of this year. Participants to the
workshop will have the possibility to influence the future of mobile
e-commerce.
MeT will offer consumers a safe and easy way to make e-commerce
transactions by using their mobile phone. It will also facilitate the
development of innovative new services and applications - benefiting
customers and service providers alike.
"The objective of the MeT
initiative is to leverage mobile transactions through open standards and
wide industry support," said Martti Granberg, Director, Mobile
E-Business Technologies, Nokia Mobile Phones and chairman of MeT.
"The MeT initiative will utilize existing standards and
technologies whenever appropriate, but also define new ones when needed.
Only this way can we achieve the critical mass to create a powerful de
facto standardized framework for mobile transactions worldwide. We are
therefore extremely pleased to welcome Siemens as a participant in MeT
and we look forward to Siemens' contribution to this very important
work. At the same time we welcome all other mobile phone manufacturers,
who would like to share our basic views, to join MeT."
"Ericsson expects around 600 million mobile Internet users by
2004," says Jan Ahrenbring, Vice President Marketing and
Communications at Ericsson Mobile Communications. "The most
important thing that is needed to get all these consumers to start using
mobile e-commerce is a standard, which makes it safe and easy to use. We
are very glad to see more manufacturers sharing this view and we welcome
Siemens as a new member in the initiative."
"The MeT
initiative is aiming to create a global framework for the development of
mobile e-commerce and we are delighted that Siemens is joining MeT to
help bring this about," said Charlie Herbert, Director of
E-Commerce, Motorola Europe, Middle East and Africa. "Siemens will
provide valuable input and we hope that this move will encourage more
manufacturers to participate in the initiative."
"Consumers must feel that their mobile devices are personal and
secured according to their individual needs," says Georges Boulloy,
Vice President Product Marketing of Siemens Mobile Devices. "As a
leading provider of mobile phones across Europe and Asia, we are excited
to be part of an alliance which will pioneer the future of mobile
e-business."
The MeT technologies and concepts will work on all networks, with all
services and from all mobile devices and will draw on existing industry
standards such as WAP, Wireless Transport Layer Security (WTLS),
Wireless Identification Module (WIM), Public
Key Infrastructure (PKI),
and Bluetooth. Privacy and security will be
ensured with digital signatures and cryptography services for
transaction verification, confidentiality, authentication and
non-repudiation. Examples of MeT based applications include secure
access and use of personal credit cards, debit cards, loyalty schemes
and ticketing.
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