Internet revolution has changed a lot of things for good. Newer and upcoming technologies are making a greater impact on our daily lives, through out the world. Mobile commerce has also been one of those technologies. Mobile commerce is simply the buying of products or services through the use of mobile phones. As the mobile technology is progressing, a lot of new features have been added for the online shoppers into the mobiles, so they don’t have to get to their PCs for buying any product or service. Customers as well as the companies who are providing these kinds of facilities are directly getting benefited from it. This is also now known as m-commerce, a short form for mobile commerce. There is a large value chain attached with the mobile commerce which isn’t very visible like the other industries. First are the mobile set manufacturers which are really gearing up each newly built cell phone to be better equipped with the m-commerce functionalities, to serve the customers as good as they can get to. Then there are companies which are working on the different software that can be installed to boost up the process with focus on better, simpler, and yet enjoyable customer as well as user experience. This has literally leaded to a war on best applications for famous phones like iPhone and Nokia.

however, that’s just one side of the story. The other real big beneficiaries are the financial institutions which are partnering with the mobile network service providers to get their hands on as much profit as possible through the different financial products packaged for m-commerce only. This has in the past few years resulted into mergers, close downs, and acquisitions of the different companies not quite up in the business. Mobile commerce has really been a hook for the new investors investing heavily into the stocks of these hot listed companies. There have been though some limitations to the use of m-commerce by the different customers. One of the biggest limitations in expansion of the m-commerce into newer regions is the infrastructural problems. In existing markets though competition is so stiff that only fittest of the fittest are able to survive. Unless the infrastructure is updated and kept paced with the emerging m-commerce technologies, it would be difficult to see the growth we saw in the past in m-commerce industry.