Tio Networks Signs Bill-Payment Agreements

Tio Networks, the expedited bill-payment processor, recently signed agreements expanding customers’ bill-payment options with Cox Communications Inc. and Southern Company’s Georgia Power subsidiary, both based in Atlanta. The agreements enable both companies’ customers to pay their bills in cash at Tio’s self-service payment kiosks and retail locations where Tio operates payment centers. Burnaby, British Columbia-based Tio Networks owns1,500 kiosks and manages 18,000 payment centers nationwide. Tio Networks credits payments to customers’ accounts the same day, Tio executives say. Tio’s agreement with Cox, the nation’s third-largest cable television company with 6.2 million customers, expands its existing bill-payment services through Tio to a national basis from a regional contract that included only Phoenix and Las Vegas. Tio will deploy bill-payment kiosks in select retail locations throughout Atlanta for customers of Georgia Power, an electrical utility with 2.3 million customers. Tio signed both agreements in late November.