-Here in Australia, m-commerce type transactions are governed rather more strictly than in some other countries, for example banks have been loath to look at solutions that do not utilise a minimum of 128bit security which is not achieved with SMS," Lee Dalton, general manager of Logica Mobile Networks, said in an e-mail to ZDNet Australia.
Telstra agreed that there are "a lot of complex issues" with how m-commerce with SMS will actually work and said it was still in the talking phase concerning its implementation.
-We're looking very very closely at m-commerce and how SMS is one of the service delivery channels we can use, billing is just a part of that. We're talking to a whole range of different companies and banks," a Telstra spokesperson said.
The country's second largest telecommunications carrier, Optus, was more blunt when questioned about the possibility of topping up pre-paid via SMS. -No, it is not an option we are currently exploring here in Australia," a spokesperson said.
