Most of them are emphasized multimedia functions as movies or images. Functions in portals are main determinants of mobile Internet services. The present status of the portals are described. MVNO provides mobile communications services without frequency allocations. Virgin group is a famous example of MVNO, and recently two famous supermarkets have started or will start activities as MVNOs.
Mobile commerce is a payment system using mobile phones.
A new m-commerce system associated with debit system has started its service in Denmark. It can be a widespread m-commerce system in near future. However standardization in m-commerce is needed. Location Interoperability Forum has been organized to define specifications. Positioning related services will be developed and diffused in 3G system.