ICC Worldwide Offers Online Prepaid Mobile Phone Recharge Services to Customers
in Italy, Belgium, and Spain
CORONA DEL MAR, Calif., April 20, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ICC Worldwide, Inc.
(Pink Sheets:ICCW) today announced that it has expanded its service offering for
the European immigrant worker community to include online recharges for prepaid
mobile phones. In addition to our previously announced capability in Italy, we
are now providing this added functionality in Belgium and Spain.
Most immigrant workers own personal mobile phones. However, unlike typical
monthly mobile plans in the U.S., the usage of these phones is provided on a
prepaid, per minute basis. Typically referred to as a “recharge” ICC’s online
process is fast and easy to use. In most cases the user’s phone is automatically
updated with the recharge payment code using a text message sent from ICC’s
network. This eliminates the need for a user to manually key in a long and
complex series of digits through his mobile phone’s keyboard. In addition, the
retail call shop which frequently sells a hundred or more of these recharge
cards each day, no longer needs to carry an expensive inventory of “scratcher”
cards in various denominations and from a number of different mobile phone
providers.
Rich Lauer, ICC’s President and CEO stated, “Our online recharge service makes the
call shop owner’s job considerably easier and much more cost effective. Prior to
our online service, the call shop was required to stock several hundred cards in
5, 10, and 25 Euro denominations. Each of these denominations must also be
available for the 3-5 popular mobile phone operators in their respective area.
So it was not unusual for a call shop to find it necessary to constantly
maintain an inventory of 5,000 to 10,000 Euros worth of these recharge cards.”
Lauer went on to say, “With the ICC solution, each recharge is purchased one at
a time and online directly from ICC’s inventory. This reduces the chance of an
out-of-stock condition, and dramatically reduces the investment required by the
call shop owner in mobile recharges. The automatic update of the recharge code
from a text message is also very popular with the mobile phone customers. When
offered in conjunction with our high quality and cost effective VoIP services,
the mobile recharge capability makes ICC’s overall product offering extremely
desirable to both the call shop owner and his retail customers.”
About ICC Worldwide:
ICC Worldwide, Inc. (Pink Sheets:ICCW) provides a specialized range of wholesale
communications services and products to an extensive retail channel serving the
diverse immigrant worker communities in Italy, Belgium, Spain, and other parts
of Europe. The firm’s principal operating units are located in Italy, Belgium,
Spain, and Romania while ICC’s U.S. headquarters is based in the Southern
California community of Corona del Mar.
Forward-Looking Statements:
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statements” within the meaning of various Federal securities laws. Those
statements may include remarks regarding the intent, belief or current
expectations of ICC Worldwide, Inc., as well as the assumptions on which such
statements are based. Prospective investors are cautioned that any such
forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve
risks and uncertainties, and that actual results may differ materially from
those contemplated by such forward-looking statements. The company undertakes no
obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements.
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Trading Symbol: ICCW.PK
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CONTACT: ICC Worldwide, Inc.
Rich Lauer
(949) 200-7569
Fax: (949) 612-0201
www.iccww.co