Ingenico Announces Partnership with Q Comm - Q Comm Prepaid Application to Run on Ingenico Terminals

Ingenico, the worlds leading provider of electronic payment terminals, announced today that Q Comm International, Inc. (Amex: QMM; QMM.WS), is developing its flexible prepaid application to run on Ingenicos multi-application terminals including the Elite series, the i5300 terminal, and the upcoming 5100 platform for delivery of Q Comms suite of prepaid products and services at retail points of purchase nationwide. Q Comm plans to begin beta testing its application on Ingenico terminals later this month with commercial certification and launch scheduled for the second quarter of 2005.

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) March 20, 2005 -- Ingenico, the worlds leading provider of electronic payment terminals, announced today that Q Comm International, Inc. (Amex: QMM; QMM.WS), is developing its flexible prepaid application to run on Ingenicos multi-application terminals including the Elite series, the i5300 terminal, and the upcoming 5100 platform for delivery of Q Comms suite of prepaid products and services at retail points of purchase nationwide. Q Comm plans to begin beta testing its application on Ingenico terminals later this month with commercial certification and launch scheduled for the second quarter of 2005.

Darin Hunsaker, Vice President of Sales at Q Comm International, stated, Ingenico offers robust and economical terminals that match our requirements to make delivery of our prepaid products at the checkout reliable, fast and simple. Ingenicos UNICAPT terminal architecture will be an exceptional multi-application platform for Q COMM prepaid offerings, credit card payment and other applications." Hunsaker added, Q Comms flexibility to work with Ingenico opens up new sales channels for Q Comm as Ingenicos Independent Sales Organizations (ISOs) will be able to sell Q Comms prepaid services. We are excited to have Ingenico, the world leader in EFT POS terminals, as a new and valued partner."

Q Comm is one of only a few providers able to address both the prepaid and acquiring market segments," stated John V. Priore, EVP and general manager of Ingenicos Financial Systems organization. Ingenico is privileged to be able to work with Q Comm both domestically and internationally to offer the very best prepaid solutions available."

Ingenico is offering Q COMMs suite of prepaid products as part of their Preferred Partner Program, bringing together best-in-breed" service providers from which acquiring and ISO sales agents can profit. Ingenicos Preferred Partner Program leverages the UNICAPT payment terminal architecture, providing optimum application portability and secure multi-application acceptance. The Elite 710 terminal is a low-cost multi-app ready" terminal, offering exceptional value with or without payment included. For more information about the Elite 710 and Ingenicos other EFT POS terminals, visit http://www.ingenico-us.com/products/payment_terminals/pt_counter.html.

About Q Comm International
Q Comm International is a prepaid transaction processor that electronically distributes prepaid products from service providers to the point of sale. Key components of Q Comms offering include proprietary prepaid transaction processing platforms, support of various point-of-sale (POS) terminals, product management, merchandising, customer support and engineering. Q Comm systems replace traditional hard cards (also known as scratch cards or vouchers) that are costly to distribute, and provide more comprehensive reporting and inventory management among other benefits. Q Comms solutions are currently used by wireless carriers or mobile operators, telecom distributors, and various retailers to sell a wide range of prepaid products and services including prepaid wireless or prepaid mobile, prepaid phone cards, prepaid dial tone and prepaid bank cards, such as prepaid MasterCard. Visit www.qcomm.com for more information.

About Ingenico
With a 26% market share, Ingenico is the world's largest provider of secure payment and transaction systems used by banking, retail, petroleum, transportation, healthcare and governments to ensure the secure acceptance and flow of electronic commerce. The Company's 1300 employees as well as network of subsidiaries, partners and distributors make it simple, fast and safe to purchase goods and services anywhere in the world.

Annually Ingenico dedicates more than 8 % of its revenue to research and development of new payment systems providing ever increasing performance and security. These payment systems, based on the UNICAPTTM 32 architecture and EMV smart card standards, leverage technologies such as biometry, touchscreen technology, GPRS communications and BluetoothTM to deliver cost effective performance. Ingenico's continual technological and commercial development of applications for purchasing card systems, e-procedures, prepaid systems and electronic transaction management provide solutions for markets that demand optimal security (Visa PED) and efficiency. Ingenico is also engaged in a large number of emerging markets such as electronic identity control, health cards, logistic traceability and many others. For more information about Ingenico, visit their web site at www.ingenico-us.com.

For more information:
Michael English
Director of Marketing and Communications
Ingenico Corp.
(770) 594-6000
info@ingenico-us.com

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