PayPoint, the UK’s leading over the counter payment network is delighted to announce two new mobile phone operator agreements. PayPoint retailers will be able to top-up customers of these new MVNO’s (mobile virtual network operators).

IDT Mobile

IDT, one of the world’s largest telecom carriers is the first MVNO to launch on the Orange UK network following on from the success of their pay-as-you-go service which was launched in Belgium and the Netherlands in 2006.

IDT Mobile will be targeting international callers based in the UK with a new SIM-only pay-as-you-go service. PayPoint retailers will earn 4% commission on all IDT Mobile top-up transactions in denominations of £5, £10 and £20.

Lebara Mobile

Lebara Mobile UK is a new Pay-As-You-Go SIM card provider offering customers in the UK low cost international calls direct from their mobile phones. Lebara Mobile utilises the mobile network of Vodafone, Lebara Mobile operates services in the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.  The new UK service is aimed at customers who make frequent international calls who value the convenience of doing this directly from their mobile without dialling any pre-fix codes. The Lebara Mobile SIM card works with all mobile handset types.

PayPoint retailers will earn 4.5% commission on all Lebara Mobile top-up transactions in denominations of £5 to £50 

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Notes to Editors
PayPoint is the leading cash and internet payments company in the UK and Ireland, handling in excess of £5 billion in over 400 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 18,500 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 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 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 1,979 '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 4,000 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 30 October 2007 was £421million. 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.