This vision for mobile payments has been enthusiastically embraced by the various stakeholders involved, including credit-card companies, cellular carriers, makers of smartphones, the leading mobile operating systems developers, and banks and financial institutions.

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It commended the traditional fixed and mobile phone networks in the UK in this respect, but raised a flag about the introduction of the newer 4G cellular systems.

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