INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, ITS CHARGING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM WITH ITS CONTROL PROGRAM RECORDED

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information providing system to shorten a waiting time until information is read by a user, to reduce a load on a network and to be charged by true data quantity of given information. SOLUTION: A title and a ciphered information main body are informed to a portable information terminal 1 when lines between the portable information terminal 1 and an information providing terminal 3 are not crowded by the information providing terminal 3. Only the title is displayed to the user, an deciphering key of selected information is requested to the information providing terminal 3 when necessary information is selected by the user and the deciphering key is transmitted from the information providing terminal 3 by the portable information terminal 1. The portable information terminal 1 is charged for the given information by using the request of the deciphering key from the portable information terminal 1 at the information providing terminal 3.