Study on the evaluation of communication platform in electronic commerce and mobile commerce

摘要

With the development of technology, mobile commerce become the hot issues after electronic commerce. The communication platform is the base in electronic and mobile commerce. The paper develops a five-dimension framework for evaluating the communication platforms which features reach, richness, cost, privacy and security of communications. Based on the five-dimension evaluating framework the paper makes a comparative study. The study compares the factors which impeded the electronic commerce and mobile commerce. By the study, the author finds that, compared with electronic commerce, the mobile commerce also have great reach but lack of communication richness and the security; and the cost of mobile commerce is also expensive than electronic commerce. While, the paper forecast that the security and the cost of mobile commerce may be improved after the use of 3G technology in the future.