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Seeking a way to offer its participating merchants a more compelling value proposition while enhancing reporting and security in its pre-paid product and service offerings, Miami-based Blackstone Online Inc. announced June 6 it has chosen Hypercom Corp.'s (HYC) ePic ICE card payment terminals to be the platform for its POS initiatives. The company, which is a provider of prepaid telecommunications products and services, initially announced it would deploy some 10,000 Hypercom terminals, but in an interview with EFT REPORT a company official said that number could increase tenfold over the next year.
"We're hoping to be at 100,000," says Janet Sancho, business development manager, Blackstone Online Inc. "That's what Blackstone has envisioned for this project. It's a very big endeavor and I know in the merchant world 100,000 is a very big number but we have a substantial base and we're hoping that that would be a number we could accomplish."
"We hear big numbers where people are trying to flash big numbers to get low pricing or they're well beyond their means as to...