Credit/Debit Cards, Consumer Spending, Payment Terminals, Retailers Key Figures

• Number of signature-based, general purpose type credit/debit/smart
  cards in circulation: US: 963.5 million (2005) Globally: 2.46 billion (2005)
• Number of card payment devices worldwide: 30 million +
  Worldwide 30 million U.S.: 12 million
• Number of card payment terminals shipped
  worldwide in 2004: 8.8 million 2.9 million of those were
  shipped to retailers in the U.S. Global number of those
  that were wireless: 783,909 Number of those that were mobile: next to none
• Dollar value of goods & services purchased with a signature-based,
  general purpose type credit/debit card last year:US: $2.14 billion (2005) Globally: $4.36 billion (2005)
• • Potential market for secure mobile electronic transaction payment
  devices in the US: $1 Billion +

Places to Look for Mobile Payments By the Numbers

Places in the U.S. to look for mobile payments in the weeks and months
ahead include:

• Convenience stores: there are more than 220,600
• Restaurants & drinking establishments: 487,000
• Supermarkets: 183,000
• Drugstores: 67,000
• Convenience Stores: 220,600
• Shopping Malls: 1,130
• Ski resorts: 571
• Amusement Parks: 320
• Golf courses: 16,057

Sources: The Nilson Report, www.nilsonreport.com; Mercator Advisory Group,

Media contact: Pete Schuddekopf, Hypercom Corporation: 602.504.5383 / pschuddekopf@hypercom.com