OREANDA-NEWS. June 27, 2012. Special applications for MTS, Kyivstar and Life :) subscribers have appeared at the Android Market. Now cardholders of any Ukrainian bank will be able to top up their mobile phone accounts directly, instantly and free of charge using new payment applications PAY MTS, PAY Kyivstar and PAY Life :). The apps enable you to transfer money from your card account to any mobile phone account and control mobile expenditures of your relatives.

"Before launching a service we have measured time of topping up - a phone with zero balance became avaliable in the network within 3.5 seconds after topping up," - says the Deputy Chairman of PrivatBank Alexander Vytiaz.

You can top up your mobile phone account or your relatives’ accounts to the amount from UAH5 to UAH3,000 without any commission charge. All you need is to download and install on your phone an application appropriate for your mobile company, and to open your Visa/MasterCard card for online payments. The OTP-passwords technology and round-the-clock online monitoring of customers’ payments provide high level of service’s safety.

PrivatBank is the largest operator of instant payments for mobile communication services in Ukrainian market. Daily more than 400,000 users’ phone accounts of Ukrainian mobile operators are topped up via PrivatBank. Paying at self-service terminals remains the most popular method - daily, 198 thousand customers top up their phones this way daily. Approximately, 80 thousand customers use online bank "Privat24" to make their payments, 60,000 mobile subscribers top up via PrivatBank’s ATMs and more than 30,000 customers use PrivatBank’s SMS-banking daily. Still, approximately 15,000 operations are proceeded at cash offices and 10,000 customers top up their mobile phone accounts in Bank’s POS-terminals in retail network.