M-payments

Mobile payments are payments that are carried out via a mobile device. No successful mobile payment system has yet lived up the different requirements from the market and thereby not been a success. M-commerce as a wide area could be divided into mobile e-commerce and m-trade area. A brief research on the state of the market is given to present a framework for possible solutions. The iMS specification enables mobile payments with one button click. The purpose of this thesis is to describe the factors that affect the introduction of a successful m-payment system - and use these factors to examine whether the J2ME technology is suitable for building such successful m-payment systems.