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Mon, August 27, 2012

PECO Launches New Mobile Optimized Website For Customers Who Are “On-the-Go”


Published on 2012-08-27 08:51:21 - Market Wire
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PHILADELPHIA--([ ])--PECO customers can now report an outage, check their service status, and pay their bill with PECO Smart Mobile On-the-Go, a new mobile optimized version of the PECO website. To take advantage of this service, first visit [ www.peco.com ] and sign up for PECOas on line convenience center.

"We want to provide our customers with tools to make it easier and faster for them to do business with us"

PECO customers who are signed up for the companyas online convenience center, and manage their account electronically, can then use their account specific username and password to perform tasks on the mobile site.

aWe want to provide our customers with tools to make it easier and faster for them to do business with us,a said Mark Alden, PECO vice president of Customer Operations. aThis is the first of many new applications we are looking to incorporate into our portfolio of service options a" all focused on improving the customer experience.a

This new portion of the PECO website has been designed for Smart Phones and tablet devices, like iPads. Customers, who access the site from their Smart Phone or tablet, will be asked whether they would like to view the full PECO website, or only the portion of the site that has been designed specifically for their Smart Phone or tablet device. When the customer visits the site in the future, the device will automatically direct the customer to version of the site they last visited.

Based in Philadelphia, PECO is an electric and natural gas utility subsidiary of Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC).PECO serves 1.6 million electric and 494,000 natural gas customers in southeastern Pennsylvania and employs about 2,400 people in the region.PECO delivered 82.1 billion cubic feet of natural gas and 38.1 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2011.Founded in 1881, PECO is one of the Greater Philadelphia Region's most active corporate citizens, providing leadership, volunteer and financial support to numerous arts and culture, education, environmental, economic development and community programs and organizations.

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