Blackstone Online Revenue and Competitors

Blackstone is privately owned and managed by a team of executives experienced in payments processing, networking, information services, retail marketing and telecommunications. Under their direction, Blackstone has established ongoing relationships with internationally recognized companies such as Americatel, AT&T Wireless, BellSouth, Cingular, Cisco Systems, Fifth Third Bancorp, Hypercom, IDT, T-Mobile and Verizon.As the prepaid telecommunications industry exploded in the mid 90s, Blackstone Calling Card rapidly became one of the country’s largest providers of prepaid telecommunications products and services with thousands of retail locations and agents & distributors nationwide. Over the years, our agents, distributors, merchants and consumers have relied on Blackstone to provide dependable products at competitive prices. During the Spring of 1999, Blackstone Calling Card realized that point-of-sale (POS) was the key to long-term success in the prepaid arena, especially for the success of prepaid cellular. So development began on what was to be a tool to enable merchants to offer an entire suite of prepaid products without purchasing or storing any inventory.Today, Blackstone has created the most innovative point-of-sale system which successfully integrates the processing of all major credit cards (MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Discover Card and Diners Club) and ATM/debit/EBT cards with the sale of prepaid products, including prepaid cellular and prepaid calling cards, into one, easy-to-use POS terminal, the licensed Blackstone POS terminal.In addition to offering the electronic delivery of prepaid products, as a merchant acquirer, Blackstone also provides an array of services to its merchant base. Blackstone Merchant Services (BMS) is a registered member of the Visa and MasterCard organizations as well as registered agents of American Express, Discover Card, Diners Club and Global Payment Systems.