OREANDA-NEWS. On 20 March 2008 was announced, that in 2007 the branches of "UTK" PJSC sold 2.4 million “Cards Number One”. Proceeds from payments for telecommunications services by means of a Uniform service card (ЕSК) accounted for more than 2.5% of total telecom revenue. The new trade mark under the brand "Card Number One" was launched in the SFD telecommunications market on the 1st of April 2006 representing a universal payment instrument for Internet, DLD/ILD, zonal and local calls as well as for other telecom services. For 8 months of 2006 the Company sold 81 thousand cards to the amount of more than 8.5 million roubles.

ЕSК can be used throughout the licensed territory of all regional branches of the Company thus allowing UTK’s customers to pay for any telecommunications services, both on a pre-paid basis and on credit, at any time in any region of Southern federal district. The roaming of the cards is provided, i.e. a card that has been bought in one region, can be used in any other region.

 “We continue to broaden the service functions of a “Card Number One”. For example, now a card holder can transfer money to his (her) account both by phone and through the Internet on-line. Statistics of the made payments can be viewed on the site www.card1.ru. And the Krasnodar and Rostov branches operating over 130 hot-spots can provide Wi-Fi Internet access by means of Card Number One”, - Commercial Director of "UTK" PJSC Arkady Samoilov  stated.

Moreover, “Card Number One” allows to use dial-up Internet services without the conclusion of the contract, to make DLD or ILD calls through a long-distance operator, to make a list of frequently called numbers, to transfer money from one card to another.