A METHOD AND NETWORK ELEMENT FOR PAYING BY A MOBILE TERMINAL THROUGH A COMMUNICATION NETWORK

摘要

The present invention proposes a payment method for paying by a mobile terminal (1) through a communication network, the method comprising the steps of: - providing (S2) information on a transaction effected with a third party (2) using the mobile terminal (1), - judging (S4, S6), whether said information fulfills a predetermined criterion of a plurality of predetermined criteria, and - selecting (S5, S7, S8), dependent on the result of said judging step, a corresponding one out of a plurality of payment modes (8, 9, 10; Mode 1, Mode 2, Mode 3) for said transaction.