March 11, 2009
Fortune: The mobile phone has yet to become a tool for payments in the United States, largely because the different players in the mobile payment ecosystem — wireless operators, banks, credit card companies and software providers — have tended to squabble over how to divide the fees from such transactions.
Now one promising upstart thinks it has cracked the code. Paymo, a two-year-old mobile payment network, says it has forged deals with four U.S. carriers — AT&T, T-Mobile, Cellular One and Virgin Mobile — that will allow users to buy digital goods online and pay with their mobile phone.