Asia will Pimpin Mobile Payment Service

San Francisco - a mobile payment service becomes more widely used. Even at this time to reach 32.9 million users around the world.

Dilansir through internal Cisco Now magazine on Saturday (14/2/2009), Gartner predicts the number will continue to grow. Even until 2010, the number of users of Mobile Payment will reach 103.9 million.

From the number of users at this time, Gartner found, 85 percent of mobile payment users are from Asia Pacific, with the number of users reached 28 million. While Western Europe is only reached 0.5 million users, while North America has a projected 1 million users Mobile Payment.

"Asia will lead the world in the use of mobile payment and will continue like that in the future, 'said Gartner research director Sandy Shen.

According to Shen, there are three main reasons which caused the Asia Pacific market will rule the mobile payment. First is the launch of the service that begins in the Asia Pacific region, initiated by the Philippines and Japan.

Second, according to Gartner, there are countries with a highly developed market in Asia Pacific, namely China and India, supported by the number of mobile users and a very large banking and payment infrastructure that is not adequate.

Finally, Asia is the ability of the community who can either accept the new services in mobile ranah. In fact, Gartner believes, more Asian people have a willingness to try new services.