A METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR ENABLING PAYMENTS OVER A MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK

摘要

A method and arrangement for enabling a mobile terminal user currently roaming in a visited mobile network (300), to execute a purchase by means of an SMS payment mechanism. An SMS message (302) containing a purchase request is received from the mobile terminal (A) . After detecting that the SMS message is addressed to an external SMS centre in a home mobile network different from the visited one, the address of the external SMS centre in the SMS message is changed into the address of an internal SMS centre (310) in the visited network. The modified SMS message is then routed towards the internal SMS centre where the purchase can be confirmed if a called number in the message matches a product/service provider (314) registered as being authorised to offer said SMS payment mechanism.