OREANDA-NEWS.  March 31, 2008.  The Russian system of payments for utility services formed and developed way back in the Soviet times, which has been carried out in the branches of Sberbank (and presently in branches of other banks), is inconvenient for the population. The bank branches do not work round-the-clock and every day; they are located in places convenient not for people but for the bank.

CyberPlat develops an infrastructure of housing and public utilities payments in two directions: on the one hand, by increasing the number of payment acceptance outlets (hence, the density of the territory coverage and accessibility of these outlets for the population), and, on the other hand, by expanding the acceptance geographically.

Currently, only in Moscow 13 thousand of outlets accept housing and public utilities payments. For example, utility payments are accepted in the network of mobile shops Svyaznoy, Dixis, Evroset, and other retailer networks. Compare: in Addresses of Moscow reference-book — one of the most complete directories in the city — there are registered less than 3000 of banking institutions of all types located in the capital and its region, including extra offices and operating cash desks.

Housing and public utilities and electricity can already be paid for via CyberPlat® in St. Petersburg, Tyumen, Yakutsk, Ulyanovsk, Penza, Chita, Yekaterinburg and a number of cities in the Moscow Region. Thus, CyberPlat® creates a payment infrastructure of paying for utilities and municipal building-maintenance services.

The new stage implemented by CyberPlat® is accepting payments for maintenance service of the PIK Group houses, such as Krylatskiye Ogni, club house on Filippovskiy Pereulok (Filippovskiy sidestreet) and many others. This is a new trend in the development of CyberPlat®. Following it the payment infrastructure is also applied to the housing space, built and maintained by private investors.

The residents of the houses built and maintained by the GC PIK have obtained a possibility to pay for the and public utilities services fast, convenient and without standing in lines at any payment outlet, connected to the CyberPlat payment system.

The total residential floor area of the GC PIK objects, which tenants are now able to pay for the utility services via CyberPlat®, comprises 1.5 million square meters.