21 July 2006
Nationwide calls for free cash points
Nationwide has given consumers greater access to their current accounts by installing free-to-use cash points at telephone boxes.
The building society has linked up with BT for the project and says that the new machines appear in locations where a bank branch may not be available.
Increasingly, customers in such areas are forced to use fee-charging cash points to draw money out of their own current accounts.
The five bullet proof cash machines are located in BT phone kiosks in Northampton, Swindon and Slough.
"This latest initiative in partnership with BT underlines Nationwide's strong and on-going commitment to providing cash machines that do not levy punitive charges on consumers who are simply withdrawing their own funds," said Stuart Bernau, executive director at Nationwide.
An ATM taskforce is meeting in London this week to discuss the availability of cash points.
Mr Bernau added: "We continue to back and promote the efforts of the ATM taskforce and hope that as a group it can act to ensure a free and easily accessible cash machine network remains available to consumers."
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