Over the last few years there have been literally dozens of attempts to get a micropayment system up. I've been researching them all and, unbelievably, they're all quite lacking. Some require a phone card (I have to go to the gas station to access a website), some have $1 minimums, many require too much investment of time and money on the part of the content-provider. As far as I can tell there's not a single micropayments company that's doing significant business. Even qpass, though it has top-flight customers, gets very little traffic.
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Over the last few years there have been literally dozens of attempts to get a micropayment system up. I've been researching them all and, unbelievably, they're all quite lacking. Some require a phone card (I have to go to the gas station to access a website), some have $1 minimums, many require too much investment of time and money on the part of the content-provider. As far as I can tell there's not a single micropayments company that's doing significant business. Even qpass, though it has top-flight customers, gets very little traffic.