Qpass
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Qpass of Seattle, WAhttp://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/product-compint-0000906140-page.html was a technology company that specialized in providing the infrastructure for electronic payments. Examples are selling products through mobile phone
s, digital television
and for billing services for Voice over IP
products.
Prior to the dot-com boom Qpass handled billing of small web purchases such as buying an archived article from the New York Times website. The company nearly collapsedhttp://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002251915_qpass25.html with the dot-com bust and re-invented itself as a company that works for providers in the mobile sector where premium content is still seen as a viable market.
Qpass was launched in 1997 and raised about $100m in funding. It was held privately by a mixture of venture capitalist firms before it was acquired in 2006 by Amdocs
. The company says that it serves 175m mobile phone consumers and has conducted over $1bn in business, but does not publish formal accounts.
Mobile phone
A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...
s, digital television
Digital television
Digital television is the transmission of audio and video by digital signals, in contrast to the analog signals used by analog TV...
and for billing services for Voice over IP
Voice over IP
Voice over Internet Protocol is a family of technologies, methodologies, communication protocols, and transmission techniques for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol networks, such as the Internet...
products.
Prior to the dot-com boom Qpass handled billing of small web purchases such as buying an archived article from the New York Times website. The company nearly collapsedhttp://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002251915_qpass25.html with the dot-com bust and re-invented itself as a company that works for providers in the mobile sector where premium content is still seen as a viable market.
Qpass was launched in 1997 and raised about $100m in funding. It was held privately by a mixture of venture capitalist firms before it was acquired in 2006 by Amdocs
Amdocs
Amdocs Limited is a provider of software and services for billing, customer relationship management , operations support systems...
. The company says that it serves 175m mobile phone consumers and has conducted over $1bn in business, but does not publish formal accounts.