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Gartner: 141 million to use mobile payments in 2011
The number of consumers paying for items via their mobile devices will shoot past 141 million this year, says new data out today from Gartner.
That figure is a 38.2 percent increase over 2010, when mobile-payment users hit 102.1 million. The amount of money generated via mobile payments is expected to reach $86.1 billion this year, up almost 76 percent from the $48.9 million seen last year.
The surge in mobile payments will come despite the slow adoption of mobile-payment technologies.
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