Thursday, March 22, 2012

Ukraine expects boom in mobile payments?


The number of consumers who intend to make purchases using the Internet in 2007 increased by 25 times compared with the previous year. It is reported payment system Portmone. com, referring to the company Inelliquest. As in the U.S., the core of Ukrainian users are young people between the ages of 24 to 35 years.





As stated Potrmone. com, the volume of payments in the system over the past year exceeded 111 million. USD. , Which is almost two times more than in 2006. And that - statistics only for Ukraine. Thus, we can assume that in 2007 was made the current ' rush ' of electronic payments. In December last year through the system were 13 million. USD. (230 thousand. transactions), of which - two million. USD. ( 60 thousand. transactions) amounted to mobile payments.





Representatives of the payment system agree with the research consultancy Aite Group, which forecasts the global market size of mobile payments at $ 11.5 billion. by 2011, compared to $ 77.6 million. in the current year. Given the use of technology SMS, WAP, as well as contactless payment, the amount of global mobile payment market in 4 years could reach $ 22 billion.



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