Western Union(R) SwiftPay(R) Service Now Available to All Sprint PCS Customers
In Nearly 40,000 Locations Nationwide
DENVER, and KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Western Union
Financial Services, Inc., a subsidiary of First Data Corp. (NYSE: FDC) and
Sprint (NYSE: FON; PCS) which operates the Sprint PCS all-digital, all-PCS
nationwide wireless network, today announced an agreement that allows Sprint
PCS customers to make their wireless phone payments at any of Western Union's
nearly 40,000 agent locations in the United States, using the Western Union(R)
SwiftPay(R) service. This new payment option is available to any of Sprint
PCS' more than 14 million wireless customers, regardless of account type.
The addition of the Western Union SwiftPay service expands the Sprint PCS
payment network and provides increased convenience for Sprint PCS customers.
The payment process is easy. Customers simply present their wireless
telephone number and cash payment at any Western Union agent location,
including many grocery stores, convenience stores and other retail locations
where Sprint PCS customers already do business.
"The Western Union SwiftPay service offers the most convenient way of
making payments in the wireless industry," said Joe Jackson, president,
Western Union Commercial Services. "Our deal with Sprint PCS extends
availability of the service to a new market segment, bringing the convenience
and value of SwiftPay to every type of wireless account holder."
"Sprint PCS is the fastest growing, all-digital nationwide wireless
network and we wanted to connect all of our customers with a payment provider
like Western Union that clearly matched our nationwide, reliable coverage,"
said Chip Novick, vice president of consumer marketing for Sprint PCS. "Now
any Sprint PCS customer can conveniently make payments at the nearly
40,000 Western Union locations nationwide."
About Western Union Financial Services, Inc. and First Data
Western Union Financial Services, Inc., a subsidiary of First Data Corp.
(NYSE: FDC), is a worldwide leader in consumer money transfer services.
Consumers can quickly, safely and reliably conduct money transfer transactions
at more than 117,000 agent locations in more than 185 countries and
territories. Famous for its pioneering telegraph service, the original
Western Union dates back to 1851 and introduced electronic money transfer
service in 1871. Western Union is celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2001.
For more information, please visit the company's Web site at
http://www.westernunion.com.
First Data Corp., with global headquarters in Denver, powers the global
economy. Serving approximately 2.6 million merchant locations, more than
1,400 card issuers and millions of customers, First Data makes it easier,
faster and more secure for people and businesses to buy goods and services,
using virtually any form of payment: credit, debit, smart card, stored-value
card or check at the point-of-sale, over the Internet or by money transfer.
For more information, please visit the company's Web site at
http://www.firstdata.com.
About Sprint
Sprint is a global communications company serving 23 million business and
residential customers in more than 70 countries. With more than
80,000 employees worldwide and $23 billion in annual revenues, Sprint is
widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying state of the art
network technologies, including the United States' first nationwide
all-digital, fiber-optic network. Sprint's award-winning Tier 1 Internet
backbone is being extended to key global markets to provide customers with a
broad portfolio of scaleable IP products. Sprint's high-capacity, high-speed
network gives customers fast, dependable, non-stop access to the vast majority
of the world's Internet content. Sprint also operates the largest 100-percent
digital, nationwide PCS wireless network in the United States, already serving
the majority of the nation's metropolitan areas including more than
4,000 cities and communities.
For more information, visit the Sprint PCS web site at http://www.sprintpcs.com.
SOURCE Western Union Financial Services, Inc.; Sprint PCS
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Related links:
http://www.sprintpcs.com
http://www.westernunion.com http://www.firstdata.com
CONTACT:
Wendy Carver-Herbert of Western Union
Financial Services, Inc., +1-303-967-6416,
wendy.carver@firstdatacorp.com; or Nancy Sherrer of Sprint PCS,
+1-913-762-7032, nsherr02@mail.sprintpcs.com
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