CyberPlat®: The Turnover in 2006 Exceeded 2 Billion 600 Million US Dollars

Moscow, Russia, January 30, 2007 --(PR.com)-- In 2006, the total turnover of the CyberPlat® payment system has reached 2 billion 639 million US dollars. Thus, the CyberPlat® Company has not only confirmed but as well reinforced its status of Russia’s largest payment system. The CyberPlat® payment system takes in over 20% of proceeds for the Russian leading cellular communication operators; being a major partner of Beeline, MTS and MegaFon by the volumes of subscriber payments.

According to the statistical data, 96% of CyberPlat®’s annual turnover is accounted for by the payments accepted from the subscribers of mobile telecommunication operators, with 1% from commercial television subscribers. The remaining 2% are payments for wire-line communication, security alarm systems, utilities, retail loans repayment and the Internet access.

CyberPlat® – the first Russian payment system – was created in 1997. The first online payment was executed on 18 March, 1998 for the benefit of the Garant-Park Company, and the first mobile operator began receiving payments on 12 August the same year. 

CyberPlat.com, Joint Stock Company, is a Russian leading Internet company providing services in e-commerce, including payment processing and secure online document interchange. The Company product is a broad-based multi-banking integrated system of the Internet top-up – CyberPlat®. The CyberPlat® electronic payment system is currently an absolute leader in the top-up market. Currently, the CyberPlat® top-up network comprises over 38,500 outlets accepting top-up payments throughout the entire country for the benefit of the leading telecommunications, satellite and cable television operators and Internet providers – including Beeline, Mobile TeleSystems, MegaFon, SkyLink, and many others. The system’s total turnover in 2006 exceeded 2 billion 600 million US dollars.

The accession of the CyberPlat® Company to the World GSM Association testifies to a well-earned acknowledgement of the company’s contribution to the development of the domestic cellular communication market, as well as premium service quality.

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For the year 2006, 669 million payments were conducted via the CyberPlat® broad-based payment system; and by the year end, a threshold of 3 million payments a day was crossed. To date, by the daily payment volumes, CyberPlat® is the country’s largest payment system; which, according to experts, outnumbers the Central Bank of the Russian Federation in transactions. And it ought to be noted that electronic payment transaction processing in CyberPlat® is performed online and does not exceed 2 seconds.

In the December of the elapsed year alone, the system conducted 84 million payments, totaling 319 mln dollars. Such a volume of operations, with Russia’s population of 145 million people, means that over a half of the Russians enjoy the services of the CyberPlat® payment system.

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