Traditional payment systems dominate the domain of electronic commerce today.However,most of them are coupled with too much overhead for the customer and a lack of security for Internet transactions.Mobile payments (m-payments),on the other hand,have been surrounded by a lot of hype since the dotcom era of the late 1990s,and although they were welcomed by some of the early adopters,not all of the key technical components - including a supportive infrastructure and stakeholder relationships -were in place to yield broad-based success in the marketplace.Now,almost a decade out from the first approaches,the domain of m-payments is advancing steadily and maturing,shedding the hype and the inappropriate and wild visions of applicability,toward a real and practical alternative for future payment infrastructures for the wireless world of e-commerce.This special issue carefully examines some of the key technical and managerial issues for this promising emerging domain.
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