OREANDA-NEWS. Tele2, an alternative mobile operator, has summed up results of using Autopay. Over 2.3 mn clients of Tele2 connected the service to automatically top up their mobile account by a card of any world bank. Around 15 thou subscribers are signing up for Autopay monthly.

The number of users increased by 60% from April 2014 to April 2015. Over this time payments by bank cards totaled almost 40% of all other ways to top up mobile accounts. An average sum of Tele2 top-ups exceeded 100 rubles. Autopay users normally exhibit ARPU that exceeds other clients’ rate by 8%.

Tele2 subscribers from Chelyabinsk are more active in connecting the Autopay service – around 300 thou topups per month. The second place was taken by Rostov-on-Don where around 248.5 thou transactions were made. St. Petersburg has taken the third place with 244 thou payments. Syktyvkar, Izhevsk and Arkhangelsk lead in users-to-subscribers ratio: 13%, 13% and 12% correspondently.

The Autopay service provides Tele2 subscribers with an opportunity to automatically top up mobile account when the remaining amount drops to a threshold amount, which can be 10, 30 or 50 rubles depending on the choice of subscribers. Very soon all Autopay users will be able to activate a payment on schedule and set a day of the next top-up themselves.

Additional information

Autopay is a convenient, reliable and safe service used to automatically top up the Tele2 mobile account when the remaining amount drops to a limit. Connection to the service is free, no commission is charged for the Autopay use. The service is provided in inter-network, national and international roaming.

Autopay may be activated on several mobile phones. Besides, the service allows a card owner to top up not only his own mobile account but also accounts of his relatives and closed ones. 

Tele2 and Sberbank launched the Autopay service in autumn 2012. In April 2014 Autopay became available to more clients thanks to partnership between Tele2 and VTB24.