California's Pacific Gas & Electric chooses TIO for billpay kiosks

SEATTLE — Pacific Gas and Electric Company, California's largest investor-owned utility, has selected TIO Networks Corp. to implement and manage its new self-service bill-payment kiosk program.

According to a news release, PG&E has purchased 11 payment kiosk systems powered by TIO's self-service softwareand processing services for local offices throughout northern and central California. The agreement also authorizes TIO to deploy up to 200 self-service kiosks within the PG&E service area.

The new expedited bill payment program permits the utility's 6 million customers to navigate through the bill pay application, in either English orSpanish, securely view their account balance, complete financial transactions, and print or e-mail receipts.