BURNABY, B.C. -- Info Touch Technologies Corp. has deployed 15 Speed e-connect kiosks at select Speedway SuperAmerica LLC (SSA) locations in Toledo, Ohio. This expansion follows the successful January 2005 launch of a Speed e-connect network in Dayton, Ohio.
Through this initiative, "cash preferred" convenience store patrons now can securely and conveniently pay their bills in cash anytime at their local Speedway store. "Cash-Preferred" Speedway customers at 15 stores now have access to bill payment and financial services through computerized TIO self-service [image-nocss] terminals.
Powered by Info Touch's industry leading Premiere software, Speed e-connect terminals provide customers with convenient access to a wide variety of services, including bill payments for wireless, utility, cable and other service providers. Bill payment services typically carry a small fee for usage.
Speed e-connect terminals are affiliated with Info Touch's TIO Network, which is currently serving customers in 22 U.S. states, Puerto Rico and British Columbia.
Info Touch and SSA plan to unveil additional Speed e-connect products and services such as money order, money transfer, prepaid credit and debit cards, check cashing and mobile content. The services will be geared toward the growing, cash-preferred market. "SSA and Info Touch are focused on delivering a host of tangible benefits to cash preferred customers," said Hamed Shahbazi, chairman and CEO of Burnaby, B.C.-based Info Touch. "Our research supports the notion that the cash preferred customers are a growing, vital and underserved demographic all over the U.S."
Speedway SuperAmerica LLC, headquartered in Enon, Ohio, is the nation's third largest company-owned and -operated convenience store chain, it said, with more than 1,600 stores located in 9 states. Most of the stores are operated under the Speedway and SuperAmerica brand names.
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 nonbanked consumer marketplace in North America. Info Touch's Premiere (powered by Surfnet) is a software platform for the delivery of automated 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, ExxonMobil, Alimentation Couche-Tard, Speedway SuperAmerica, Kum&Go, Maverik, NOCO, Cricket Communications, COX Communications, Memphis Light Gas & Water and Qwest Communications.
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