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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- (Business Wire)
Nearly 60 percent of consumers plan to purchase gift cards – the top
item on consumers’ shopping lists – this year, according to Accenture’s
2014 Holiday Shopping Survey1. Just in time for the holiday
gift-giving season, Boost Mobile and Sprint customers can easily
purchase and send eGift cards to their friends and family right from the
Boost Mobile Wallet and Sprint Money Express applications.
Boost Mobile and Sprint customers can easily purchase and send eGift cards to their friends and family right from the Boost Mobile Wallet and Sprint Money Express applications. (Photo: Business Wire)
Boost
Mobile Wallet and Sprint
Money Express, powered by Wipit,
provide consumers an easy way to make payments from their smartphone or
prepaid Visa® or MasterCard® with no credit check
or monthly fees. Using these apps, consumers can load checks for instant
access to cash, get paid faster with direct deposit, pay more than 3,500
billers, send money worldwide, quickly transfer money, and more right
from their smartphone. Users can add funds to their account with free
bank transfers, direct deposit or at Boost Mobile Wallet authorized
retailers.
Consumers can also buy eGift cards from top retailers in gaming,
entertainment, casual dining and apparel, making holiday gifting easy
and convenient. These retailers include Amazon, Babies R Us, Bass Pro
Shops and JCPenney. To view a complete list of eGift card retailers,
download the Sprint Money Express or Boost Mobile Wallet mobile app, or
visit wipit.me/boost
or wipit.me/sprint.
Additional retailers will be added continuously. The eGift card will be
sent as an email to the recipient, along with a personalized message
from the sender.
“The addition of eGift cards to these two applications makes them even
more robust and now takes care of even more of our consumers’ financial
and everyday needs,” said Kevin McGinnis, vice president of Pinsight
Media+, a division of Sprint. “Customers who use these apps are saving
money, paying their bills, transferring funds, and can now use their
extra cash stored in the apps to easily send their family or friends a
gift.”
eGift card functionality will be added to existing versions of the
mobile apps as a free update. Both apps are free to download, sign up is
free, and they use the data in the customer’s plan. Boost Mobile Wallet
is available for Boost Mobile customers for iOS in the App
Store and for Android devices in Google
Play. Sprint Money Express is available for Sprint customers with
Android devices in Google
Play.
The app icons also appear on Boost Mobile and Sprint Android
smartphones. Clicking on the icon takes the customer to the app store to
download the app. For customers currently using these apps, updates
(including the eGift card feature) will happen automatically or
customers will be prompted with a notification to update the app.
About Sprint
Sprint (NYSE: S) is a communications services company dedicated to
delivering the best value in wireless. Sprint served 55 million
customers as of Sept. 30, 2014, and is widely recognized for developing,
engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including the first
wireless 4G service from a national carrier in the United States;
leading no-contract brands including Virgin Mobile USA, Boost Mobile,
and Assurance Wireless; instant national and international push-to-talk
capabilities; and a global Tier 1 Internet backbone. Sprint has been
named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) North America for the
last four years. You can learn more and visit Sprint at www.sprint.com
or www.facebook.com/sprint
and www.twitter.com/sprint.
About Boost Mobile
Established in 2002, Boost
Mobile, part of the Sprint Prepaid Group, redefines value for
wireless consumers with more data for less and no long-term commitment
to a subscription contract. Boost Mobile operates on the Nationwide
Sprint 3G Network for data and the Nationwide Sprint Network for voice
services, each reaching more than 281 million people, and on the
nationwide Sprint 4G LTE Network, which reaches more than 250 million
people. Its award-winning customer service has been recognized more than
eight times.
About Wipit
Wipit provides integrated mobile payments, financial services and
prepaid debit card convenience to underbanked consumers. The company
works with Sprint to innovate mobile payments with the co-branded Sprint
Money Express and Boost Mobile Wallet mobile money services. Wipit has
commercial partnerships with and has been invested in by Euronet
Worldwide (NASDAQ: EEFT), H&R Block, Inc. (NYSE: HRB), as well as Core
Innovation Capital. For more information, visit http://www.wipit.me.
1 2014 Accenture Holiday Shopping Survey, October 2014 - U.S.
Results
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Contacts:
Sprint
Amy Johnsonbaugh, 949-748-3389
amy.johnsonbaugh@sprint.com
or
Boost
Mobile
Danielle Babbington, 949-748-3418
Danielle.Babbington@sprint.com
Source: Sprint
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