BURNABY, B.C. -- Info Touch Technologies Corp. has inked an agreement that enables Cingular Wireless LLC customers to make real-time bill payments with cash at Info Touch's TIO branded self-service automated terminals in the United States.
This agreement enables Cingular customers to check their balance due and make real-time cash payments on their accounts at hundreds of automated cash-accepting kiosk terminals located in convenient retail locations nationwide.
The bill payment application developed by Burnaby, B.C.-based Info [image-nocss] Touch and Cingular will be able to support most of Cingular's subscribers at any participating TIO location by June 2006, with the remaining subscribers to be enabled by mid-2007.
Info Touch Technologies, a strategic investment of Hewlett Packard, is building the "TIO Network" a national multi-retailer network of financial services kiosks for the cash preferred consumer marketplace in North America.
Info Touch's Premiere software is a platform for the delivery of automated financial services such as bill payment, money transfer, digital merchandising, PIN dispensing for prepaid products and services, maps and directions, check cashing and electronic coupons.
Info Touch clients include Circle K/Alimentation Couche-Tard, ExxonMobil, Speedway SuperAmerica, Cricket Communications, COX Communications, Memphis Light Gas & Water and Qwest Communications.
With more than 700 locations and six top-tier corporate-owned convenience store chains participating, the TIO Network is the largest national multi-retailer network of self-service financial service kiosks in North America, the company said. Services offered under the TIO brand umbrella are tailored specifically for the cash-preferred consumer marketplace. More than 250,000 people a month pay their bills in cash with TIO, it added.
Cingular Wireless is a joint venture between AT&T Inc. and BellSouth Corp.
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