subject: The History of Mobile Ticketing and Cellular Solutions [print this page] The History of Mobile Ticketing and Cellular Solutions
The world of eCommerce has indeed made more than one radical change to life as we know it. A hundred years ago, if you told someone that the phone could be your own personal marketplace, people would say you were loony. 50 years ago, if you told people you could get an emergency flight ticket using your telephone, they would have laughed. As few as 20 years ago, the Internet was merely at a nascent state. Today, it has become a driving technological force; making life dynamic and super fast. This gave way to the rise of the phone as a device of multi utility device. From mobile ticketing to gaming, the phone has adapted quite a few extra attributes over being merely wireless communication!
Smart phone technology that gave birth to mobile booking was with us since 2001, introduced by European telecom giant 3G. These phones had video conference facilities, Internet usage, and interactive gaming and applications. But the service provided was at a limited scale and the functions comparatively poor. Today, with open platforms like the Android OS from Google, and seamless manufacturing from Apple with iPads and iPhones; the entire world has gone cellular.
Portable and fast, new generation wireless Internet technology and high end systems power these devices. They offer all the vital services like mobile payments, phone shopping galleries, interactive gaming, professional applications, and about anything imaginable. Software designers continually produce applications to use for various purposes. Today, we have over a million apps available for download. Apps for mobile booking are some of the most popular.
The reason why mobile payments systems became popular was the speed. Imagine how difficult it was to manage buying an emergency movie ticket or book a flight on short notice from your laptop. They were portable solutions as well, but the bulky structure made laptops much more difficult to handle on the move. Smart phones made the system truly portable. They are always on our person, and always online. By synchronizing your banking to your phone, in app payments are instant and fast. Most banks have begun phone banking to keep up to the contemporary trends.
Mobile booking can offer you many advantages over conventional booking. To popularize the system, and make more instant sales, businesses offer various discounts and coupons with their products. From shopping to hotel reservations, there are a variety of options to get big discounts. Mobile ticketing is often described as rebates, because the first tickets' were discount coupons sent to users of a particular service provider for promotional purposes.
Today, you can avail to instant mobile payments for about anything. Virtual galleries offer everything from sporting goods to cars on sale. Businesses have their own shopping carts on their phone web pages. Some companies like Amazon.com and eBay are among the giants of Internet business and globally recognized eCommerce pioneers. To get ahead of the competition in this ruthless market, get your company the upper hand. Adapt yourself to mobile ticketing and phone based web services - the next generation of business solutions.
