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Electric Bill Payment through Credit Card


Electric bill payment is one of the routine works that we need to do every month on time. Some electric supply provider company issues electric bill monthly some are providing quarterly. What ever is the billing system may be, but they are maintaining a dead line for payment. If you noticed, every year, the electric company becomes stricter in maintaining deadline of payments. If you failed to make the payment within the deadline, then you have to pay late fees. If you again failed to make payment with late fees with in the extended time, you will get a notice of right away disconnection. If you disregard the final notice or failed to pay the bill with in the extended time, right away your electricity supply will disconnected.

Paying electric bill is a boring one. Some time standing on a long cue you have to wait for hours together to pay the bill. There is always a long cue in the banks electricity bill payment counter.

Now a day, electricity becomes an important part of our life; we can not go with out it. So we do not want the unpleasant disconnection to happen. At present days credit cards are now widely used for everydays varieties routine transactions. Payment of electric bill may be one of them. By enrolling your credit cards for payment of electric bill you can avoid the hassle of going to payment center, standing on a long cue for hours together or ATM every month to make a payment of your bill. What you have to do is very simple. Check with your credit cards providers if they have setup up an agreement with the electricity supply company to do payments through credit card.

Credit cards reviews are always available. You can go through the review to know about the credit cards providers, their services and benefits given to card holders. From the review you can compare the providers and their services and you can find best one that will fit best to what you need. Remember, in present days many credit card providers give various incentives to its card holders like cash back, discounts etc for using credit card for payments, including the payments of electric bills.

By enrolling your credit cards for payment of electric bill you can avoid lot of inconvenience, hassle and wasting time, Moreover you can have some money back by paying your electric bill through credit cards.

Wipro launches ‘e.go’ laptops

The India and Middle East IT Business Wipro Infotech, of Wipro Ltd launched a premium range of laptop named ‘e.go’ at an unbelievable price starting below Rs 20,000.

Anand Sankaran, chief executive officer of Wipro Infotech, said the company is hopeful that its new range of affordable laptops would make good business especially in times of global financial crisis.

He also said that “We wanted to break the rupees 20,000 price barrier. So, this laptop is launched at sup-(rupees) 20,000 and it basically is for the consumers. It’s for home use. So, we wanted to ensure that we get it at a price point which is affordable to the consumers in times like this”.

Starting from a price of Rs. 19,999 onwards, the new range of notebooks comes in a range of vibrant colors including chrome red, ocean blue, racer yellow, autumn red and coral blue.

Ashok Tripathy, general manager and head of computing business, Wipro said, “This notebook comes with a 12 inch and 14 inch screen, 2 GB RAM, 2 mega pixel camera and windows into this system. So it’s a no-compromise product. It breaks the rupees 20,000 barrier from price point level. What we are bringing into the market is a fully functional, stylish, premium range of product for discerning users,”

Wipro said that the new laptop represents the bold Indian look and that’s the name ‘e.go’. One of the striking features of the ‘e.go’ notebooks is that they are completely environment friendly and also hold green leaf label.

The ‘e.go’ range comes in three models: 7F3800, EM471X series and BM2700 series. It also comes with 12 inch and 14 inch screens. With battery backup capacity for three hours, the laptops are fully loaded.