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TIO expands bill-pay footprint to Louisianna

June 3, 2013

TIO Networks Corp. today announced the expansion of its bill-pay kiosk program into Louisiana through partnerships with the City of Ruston and Cayenta, a division of Harris Computer Systems.

The partnership will support the launch of Ruston's first pre-paid utility payments program, the announcement said. Cayenta provided the prepaid utilities module and TIO Networks provided the self-serve bill pay kiosks to implement the new program. The payment gateway is operated by Harris Computer.

"City of Ruston residents will now be able to make utility payments 24 hours a day, seven days a week at the two automated kiosks using cash, credit, debit or check," said Darrell Caraway, public utilities manager for the city. "The bill-payment kiosks will reduce line-ups, alleviate pressure on our staff and make the customer service process much more efficient for our clients."

The partnership marks TIO Networks' first municipal government kiosk deployment in Louisiana. The company currently has more than 57,000 payment locations in all 50 states and continues to expand in Canada and the Caribbean, the announcement said.

"This innovative partnership integrates technology from different partners to offer utility customers in the City of Ruston more convenient methods to pay bills on time," said Hamed Shahbazi, CEO and chairman of TIO Networks. "We're very excited to be working with Cayenta to offer this solution to the City of Ruston."

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