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PayPal To Kill Premium SMS Numbers?

PayPal To Kill Premium SMS Numbers?

By Guy Brighton on February 3, 2006

PayPal is going to introduce a method where you can pay for goods through SMS. In the same way that you would click on a link on a website and you would be charged for a product or service, the new system will let you click on a link in SMS and the charge sent to your SMS account.

For a long time, premium priced SMS codes have been seen as the route to mobile commerce but this system could change the way we buy on our mobile phones.

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