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[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Subject: mobile-government...

from the BBC -

I am a mobile phone...?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1991000/1991093.stm


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    Thursday, 16 May, 2002, 11:18 GMT 12:18 UK
Government goes mobile
 
Talking to government via text messaging

Imagine getting your exam results, an update on your passport application or
news that your state benefit was in your bank via mobile phone.

It could become a reality as the UK Government considers mobile
communications as part of its drive to make all public services available
electronically by 2005.

As well as offering services online and via interactive TV, officials are
looking at mobile phones as an alternative delivery method.

The government is in talks with mobile phone network operators and handset
makers to use SMS to exchange information and support secure transactions,
using digital certificates coded into phones, reports the technology news
magazine Computing.

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