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Subject: bill payments via self-service kiosks
Category: Business and Money
Asked by: infopower-ga
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Posted: 09 Oct 2005 21:21 PDT
Expires: 08 Nov 2005 20:21 PST
Question ID: 578383
What companies are using self-service kiosks to enable their customers
to pay their bills with cash in person?
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Subject: Re: bill payments via self-service kiosks
Answered By: bobbie7-ga on 10 Oct 2005 16:07 PDT
Rated:4 out of 5 stars
 
Hello  Infopower,

Below you will find a list of companies that are using self-service
kiosks to enable their customers to pay their bills with cash in
person?


Cingular Wireless

?In a deal worth $2.5 million, Cingular Wireless has installed bill
payment Web kiosks by NCR Corporation in 186 retail locations
throughout the Southeast. The NCR 7401 Web kiosk and receipt printer
enables Cingular customers to pay with cash, checks and credit and
debit cards.?

Kiosk Marketplace: 18 December 2000 
http://www.kioskmarketplace.com/news_story.htm?i=5260



Sprint PCS 

Kathleen Dunleavy, spokeswoman for Sprint PCS, said they have  payment
stations in stores.

Verizon Wireless
Niagara Mohawk
NYSEG 
Time Warner Cable

?Verizon Wireless customers can pay in stores, said spokesman Dan
Diaz. Land-line customers are able to pay their bills at Price Chopper
supermarkets, where they also can settle at no charge utility bills
for Niagara Mohawk, NYSEG and Time Warner Cable.
Verizon also has installed so-called Vcom payment kiosks at 7-Eleven
stores in several states, including Maryland, California and Arizona.?

Bill Payment Kiosks : April 10, 2004 
http://www.gokis.net/self-service/archives/000623.html


Commonwealth Edison electric company (ComEd)
Peoples Energy gas company
MCI,
Sprint
Dish Network
Verizon Wireless
AT&T Residential

?Pay-Ease has contracted with several companies offering their
customers the option of paying a bill via a self-service machine as
opposed to paying at a manned payment station or by mail or online.

These subscribers include Commonwealth Edison electric company
(ComEd), Peoples Energy gas company, MCI, Sprint, Dish Network,
Verizon Wireless, and AT&T Residential.?

Kiosk Information System
http://www.gokis.net/self-service/archives/000624.html


Cricket Communications

? This novel bill-pay application addresses the needs of customers who
want to pay thier Cricket mobile bill in person or who pay in cash
because they are among the growing population of the unbanked.

This application was launched when Cricket Communications, Info Touch
Technologies and Kiosk Information Systems partnered to offer Cricket
customers a more convenient way to pay their cellular phone bills
using Info Touch- and KIS-designed ZapLink Internet kiosks located in
Circle K stores.?

"The Cricket application has given customers a convenient way to pay
in person with no wait," said Hamed Shahbazi, chairman and CEO of Info
Touch Technologies.?

Kiosk Marketplace: May 2004
http://www.kioskmarketplace.com/news_story_19379.htm


?Cricket's express pay application is available on a network of
approximately 279 kiosks in a variety of retail settings in cities
including: Memphis, Phoenix, Tucson, Albuquerque, Salt Lake City and
Denver. Over the next few months, Info Touch and Leap anticipate
expanding Cricket Express Pay to additional company-owned stores and
indirect dealer locations and through Info Touch's rapidly expanding
network of national and regional convenience store chains.?
http://kioskmarketplace.com/news_story.htm?i=20718



Verizon residential phone services 
7- Eleven?s E-Cash prepaid MasterCard
AT&T, Cingular
T-Mobile
TracFone
AirVoice
AllTell,
Beyond Wireless
Boost
Hargray
i-wireless
Omni Prepaid.
La Plata Electric Association, Inc
Rural Electric Cooperative



?7-Eleven?s Vcom network is comprised of 1040 kiosks that accept
payment for the payment of utility bills, prepaid long distance,
Verizon residential phone services and 7- Eleven?s E-Cash prepaid
MasterCard, in addition to check cashing and money order purchases. ?

?The Prepaid Stop offers prepaid wireless services of AT&T, Cingular,
T-Mobile, TracFone, and Verizon as well as regional carriers AirVoice,
AllTell, Beyond Wireless, Boost, Hargray, i-wireless and Omni Prepaid.
The service has been deployed in supermarkets, drug stores and larger
convenience stores along the East Coast over the past year.?

?At the Coinstar Centers, customers can replenish prepaid wireless
accounts of Alltel, AT&T Wireless, Cingular, T-Mobile and Verizon and
reload prepaid Truth MasterCard cards. Employees of participating
companies can obtain printed wage statements, balance inquiry and
payroll cash vouchers.?

?Rural Electric Cooperative Provides Bill Payment, Prepaid and ATM
Financial Kiosk Services?

« La Plata Electric Association, Inc. (LPEA) positions itself to
provide electronic prepay, bill pay and concierge services to
cooperative members and community businesses this month with the
launch of its first kiosk La Plata Electric Association plans to
implement its first kiosk in a vestibule at its central office in
Durango followed by conveniently located sites throughout the
community.?

Kiosk Information Systems : September 02, 2005
http://www.kis-kiosk.com/public/archives/cat_financial_services.html


Billpay kiosks

KIS has built bill pay and financial service kiosks for many
companies, including the clients listed below.

Citigroup 
Cricket 
Banco Popular 
Bank of America 
Florida Power 
Con Edison 
Circle K Stores 
Exxon Mobil Convenience Stores 

Kiosk Information Systems : 
http://www.kis-kiosk.com/apps/billpayment-kiosk.html


Search terms:
"bill payment kiosks OR kiosk"" OR "billpay kiosks OR kiosk" companies OR clients


I hope the information provided is helpful.

Best regards,
Bobbie7
infopower-ga rated this answer:4 out of 5 stars and gave an additional tip of: $5.00

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Subject: Re: bill payments via self-service kiosks
From: bobbie7-ga on 10 Oct 2005 20:57 PDT
 
Thank you for the tip!
-Bobbie7

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