Mobile EC--A New Mode Of EC

As digitalization, networking and informationization are the three main characteristics of 21st century, EC is becoming more and more popular in an overcoming tendency in the world for it provides the global business environment, enhances the communication speed rapidly, saves expenses on managing and lowers the cost of enterprises. Network and wireless communication have brought great impacts on our life. With its rapid prevalence of mobile phones that have the function of network access, people can get information through computer and network and also can communicate easily at any time by mobile phone by means of wireless communication access. When people want to send e-mails, read news and stocks information, order all kinds of goods to realize mobile interaction. Mobile EC -a new mode of EC comes into being, which is a kind of EC combining the mobile communication net and internet and is also an important service the mobile internet offer to its clients .From the pointview of its concept and combing its characteristics of agility, simpleness and rapidness, the paper studies the modes of the new EC and gives prominence to its advantages comparing with the traditional EC and also analyzes the basic technologies of realizing mobile e-commerce such as WAP, GPRS, Bluetooth, mobile IP and 3G detailedly. Based on the new technologies, services that mobile e-commerce provides on paying by mobile telephone, identifying fingerprints, wireless medical treatments, mobile video operation, traveling with electronic and mobile tourism information commerce are getting widely used by taking advantages of mobile wireless network.. With its rapid development, people can get amount of ' information they need easily at any time and improve work efficiency greatly.Mobile communication business has launched in China since 1987 and mobilephone has become a new branch of Chinese telecom business with many years of its rapid development.. Mobile C has come into use in parts of our country and some industries. Through many problems such as charging, legislation, network environment and network security, great amounts of Chinese clients have formed the basic of Chinese Mobile EC development. It is expected that the speed of Chinese Mobile EC will exceed that of Chinese EC in the whole.With all kinds of necessary conditions are becoming more and more mature, people will do e-business by mobile devices more frequently. As a new type of EC mode, the prospect is magnificent. It can be expected that mobile EC will become the main field of EC in the 21st century.