On April 22, 2009, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a report on recent and upcoming developments in the mobile commerce market, summarizing discussions from nine public town hall sessions on topics ranging from mobile security and location-based services to best practices for billing, complaints, and customer dispute resolution.
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