Cash from your (or someone elses) phone ...

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

"Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is testing a mobile payment system that lets users
transfer up to $100 per transaction using text messaging"

http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?id=idgml-
31f72c6a-52d6-4c95&Portal=adf2e621-0e0d-4183-a919-
7b6a2c72f30b&sub=7345

or

http://tinyurl.com/4v4y3e

OK, first thoughts: call forwarding (for both payment interception and payment
verification).

I can see some uses, but it will depend upon fees to a large extent.  Mostly it
seems like a solution in search of a problem.  (With a large probablity of
attendant problems ...)


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