PayPoint, the UK’s leading convenience retail bill payment network is delighted to announce that it can now sell e-voucher top ups for Noodle - the new mobile phone service, which allows customers to make very low-cost, national and international calls. In addition, customers receive credit on their Noodle mobile account for calls made and received on their Noodle number during weekdays.  Customers can log on to www.noodle.co.uk to buy a Noodle SIM card.

Noodle customers will be able to buy Noodle e-vouchers in values of £5, £10 or £20 over-the-counter, only at PayPoint. PayPoint retailers earn 4% commission on Noodle sales.

Mike Igoe, PayPoint Retail Director commented: “We are excited to be the first payment network to launch with Noodle, indicating the strength of our retailers and the PayPoint brand. We are continuously adding new schemes to our terminal to drive business into our retail outlets”.

Sean Murray, Noodle Mobile Chief Executive, adds: “PayPoint is the natural choice for Noodle and our community of users.  PayPoint is situated in local stores throughout the UK and will give our customers the easiest opportunity to buy a Noodle top-up without having to use the internet or travel further than their local shop.”

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Enquiries:
PayPoint Press Office
Helen Crossley and Jenine Creaney
020 7553 4111
helen.crossley@mischiefpr.com / jenine.creaney@mischiefpr.com

Notes to Editors
PayPoint is the UK’s and Ireland’s leading cash and internet payments company, handling over £5 billion in 414 million payments annually for over 5,000 clients and merchants. The company operates with several significant payment streams:

• The PayPoint branded retail network numbers over 17,500 terminal outlets  located in local shops (including Co-ops, Spar, Costcutter, NISA-Today’s, Londis and thousands of independents) in all parts of the UK and Ireland. Terminals handle cash bill payments, mobile phone top-ups, transport tickets, London Congestion Charges, BBC TV licences and a wide variety of other payment types for all of the leading utilities, telecoms suppliers and many consumer service companies. This network is used by consumers, free of charge, over 7 million times a week. The network has 97.3% population cover on a 1 mile urban or 5 miles rural measure; 
• Additional multiple retailer connections into the electronic till systems (EPoS) of over 3,850 outlets including BP, Somerfield and Superdrug for mobile top ups and selected payments from the PayPoint range;
• The PayPoint ATM network has over 1850 ‘LINK’-branded machines across the UK, also typically in convenience stores. These machines levy a small convenience fee for each withdrawal; and 
• PayPoint Internet Payment Services, trading as Metacharge and SECPay, provides secure credit and debit card payments for over 4,000 web merchants linking into all the major UK acquiring banks.

PayPoint floated on the London Stock Exchange in September 2004 and was the Financial Times ‘New Company of the Year’.  The company has a market capitalisation of over £450 million. In year ended March 2007, revenue was £157 million with profit before tax of £27 million. PayPoint has been awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise and is widely recognised for its leadership in prepayment systems, smart technology and consumer service.

About Noodle
Regulated by OFCOM, Noodle is the trading name of Noodle Telecom Limited, a company founded in 2000 and recently purchased by Gerrard Bailey Ltd.

Noodle is a new generation mobile company offering cellular, VoIP and home services with extensive UK based customer services and support.  The Noodle SIM contract offers customers clear and transparent on-line call account details whilst maintaining some of the lowest mobile calling rates available in the UK.  For more information about the Noodle service, visit www.noodle.co.uk and see their Rates section or call their Customer Services team on 0870 175 7678.