CheckFree Brings AT&T Consumers Their Long Distance Phone Bills Online
ATLANTA, July 31 /PRNewswire/ — CheckFree (NASDAQ:CKFR) and AT&T (NYSE:T) today announced that AT&T residential customers can now view and pay their long distance phone bills online at more than 150 Web sites in CheckFree’s electronic billing and payment (EBP) network. AT&T’s 60 million long distance customers can now realize the convenience of viewing and paying their bills via the Internet.
“The momentum that AT&T can bring to electronic billing and payment is tremendous because today they are among the largest issuers of paper bills in the United States,” said Tom Stampiglia, president of CheckFree Software Division. “CheckFree Web distribution partners, including portals such as Yahoo!, the United Stated Postal Service, leading banks, brokerages and credit unions, will benefit because consumers will be able to see their AT&T bill from the site of their choice. Consumers will find they can quickly and easily pay AT&T and other accounts they’ve set up electronically, saving time month after month.”
“AT&T is committed to delivering to our customers all of the advantages the Internet has to offer. Electronic billing and payment offers customers tremendous convenience and interactivity that they can’t get in any other medium,” said Michael Tempora, vice president for AT&T Billing Services and Solutions. “Customers want to aggregate and pay all of their bills from a single web site — whenever they want, wherever they want. Our arrangement with CheckFree, a leader in electronic payment services, brings our residential customers the benefit of being able to view and pay their AT&T long distance bill along with any of their other bills which they have enrolled for electronic billing and payment all at a single web site.”
AT&T residential long distance customers will be able to view and pay their monthly long distance phone bills at more than 150 financial services Web sites offering the CheckFree electronic billing and payment service, as well as Intuit’s Quicken(R) personal financial management software. The appearance of the AT&T electronic bill is very similar to that of its paper- based counterpart, however AT&T online bills also include new interactive capabilities not available in a traditional paper bill.
AT&T residential long distance customers can approve their bill payment with the click of a mouse and have the amount deducted electronically from a designated bank account. In addition, consumers who pay bills electronically are protected from unauthorized transactions or processing delays by the CheckFree Guarantee.
Consumers can enroll to access their AT&T residential long distance bill, and pay all of their bills via CheckFree’s “pay everyone” capability, at a number of electronic billing and payment Web sites, including:
Charles Schwab at https://www.mybills.com/schwab;
Citizens Bank at https://www.mybills.com/citizens or http://www.citizensbank.com/;
First Union at https://www.mybills.com/firstunion;
Merrill Lynch at https://www.mybills.com/mlol;
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter at https://www.dwdean.com;
Navy Federal Credit Union at https://www.mybills.com/NavyFederalWebBillPay;
NetBank http://www.netbank.com;
Prudential Securities at https://www.mybills.com/Prudential/WBP;
Quicken 98/99 software and Quicken.com at http://www.quicken.com/banking_and_credit/;
Summit Bank at https://www.mybills.com/summitbank;
United States Postal Service http://www.usps.com/ebpp/splash.html;
Yahoo! at http://bills.yahoo.com
(Please note that an “s” is required after the “http” on several of the Web sites in order to access the service. This indicates that the site is secured.)
Since the market introduction of its electronic billing and payment service, CheckFree has signed multi-year contracts with leading companies representing more than 500 million bills delivered each month. These billers include other leading telecommunications providers, mortgage, utility, cable, cellular and credit card comp
