Regardless of whether you're loyal to Ma Bell or the Now Network, you can expect the same high-end design and fast performance, though battery life seems to vary modestly depending on the carrier.
As Jacobson points out, the mobile commerce ecosystem includes payment processing network companies such as Mastercard (MA), Visa (V) and American Express (AXP) as well as point-of sale (POS) equipment companies like VeriFone (PAY) and NCR Corp. (NCR), which should help alleviate privacy and security concerns.
Merely hours after Google and the city of Austin jointly made clear that Google Fiber would be hitting up local homes in mid-2014, Ma Bell has made public its "intent" to built a 1 Gigabit fiber network in the same area.