Mobile phones make payments at Coca-Cola machines

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Mark Jenkins @ Nov 15th 2006 4:24PM

Finland (Sonera) was playing with the concept in 1997. We had one of their machines shipped to a U.S. event in 1998.

Granted the technology is old. The reason the U.S. is so far behind is that there is no consumer demand. Sure, if your reading this, your a geek and would love and adopt the concept. The problem is most other people haven't seen the connection between cell phones, their bank account, and pop machines.

Let's see if Cingular's latest announcement (wireless banking) changes this.

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