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7.9% of U.S. consumers use mobile phone payments

Due to IE Market Research, 7.9% of U.S. consumers have used their smartphone to make payments for at least one product. Retailers tend to increase customers’ interest in such option by encouraging them to use their phones for checking prices, scanning bar codes and active shopping. The mobile commerce is the most widespread in Taiwan, where 32% of shoppers have made purchases with their smartphone.

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Permalink Reply by Yulia Tsiaputa on December 8, 2010 at 8:18am

eBay opened a new Web site to let end users take a look at mobile shopping trends from other standpoints - such as by geographic region, time frame, and product category - http://www.ebayinc.com/mobilecommerce There you can quickly compare m-commerce sales volumes in 20 categories of products sold on eBay, and across six different countries.