PayPoint, the UK’s leading convenience retail bill payment network has expanded its international top-up services with ezetop, the international mobile recharge company to cover two network operators in Pakistan – Jazz Pakistan and Telenor Pakistan.

PayPoint customers can now buy Jazz and Telenor top-up e-vouchers for family, friends and business colleagues in Pakistan. The PayPoint receipt produces a unique PIN which can be sent to contacts in Pakistan and the receiver enters the PIN in exactly the same way if they had purchased it at home in Pakistan. 

PayPoint retailers earn 4% commission uncapped on all Jazz Pakistan and Telenor Pakistan transactions. Denominations available are:

• Jazz Pakistan - £3.00, £6.50 & £10.00
• Telenor Pakistan - £2.50 & £10.00

Mike Igoe, PayPoint’s Retail Director comments: “We are delighted to be partnering exclusively with the networks Jazz and Telenor via ezetop in providing an international top-up service for Pakistan. By bringing these services to the UK, we aim to satisfy the Pakistani communities based in the UK and provide a convenient and affordable way for them to send phone credit to their family and friends back home. PayPoint retailers can benefit from the additional traffic and associated sales these new services will bring.

Enquiries:
PayPoint Press Office
020 7100 9999
paypoint@mischiefpr.com

ABOUT PAYPOINT
PayPoint is the leading cash and internet payments company in the UK and Ireland, handling in excess of £6 billion in over 470 million transactions annually for more than 5,000 clients and merchants. The company operates with several significant payment streams:

• The PayPoint branded retail network numbers over 19,000 terminals located in local shops (including Co-op, Spar, Costcutter, Sainsburys Local, One Stop, Londis and thousands of independents) in all parts of the UK and Ireland. Terminals handle gas and electricity meter prepayments, 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, telecommunications suppliers and many consumerservice companies. This network is used by consumers, free of charge, 8 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 of nearly 4,000 outlets including BP, Somerfield and Superdrug for mobile top-ups and selected payments from the PayPoint range;
• The PayPoint ATM network has 1,950 'LINK' branded machines across the UK, also typically in convenience stores;
• PayPoint Internet Payment Services (PPIPS), trading as Metacharge and SECPay, provides secure credit and debit card payments for over 4,500 web merchants linking into all the major UK acquiring banks; and 
• PayPoint International has recently acquired a Romanian mobile top-up operator to which a bill payment service will be added, emulating the UK branded retail network. PayPoint International also operates Irish bill payment and top-up services.

PayPoint floated on the London Stock Exchange in September 2004. The company's market capitalisation at 14 December 2007 was £440 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 EZETOP
Enquiries:
press@ezetop.com

ezetop enables members of Diaspora communities to send mobile phone credit home to support their family and friends. Services are available from over 35,000 retail stores across the US, UK and Gulf and through a significant online website.

ezetop’s services benefit the mobile operator as it gives access to additional revenue outside their domestic market and also helps to drive subscriber acquisition. ezetop currently offers services to 14 mobile operator countries in Asia, the Caribbean, Central and South America and the South Pacific and is integrating with many other operators around the world.

www.ezetop.com