Sverdlvosk Gubernskiy Bank started accepting Union Card payments for mobile service and satellite televison on December 8, 2006. The payments can be made in Yekaterinburg, Asbest, Nizhniy Tagil, and Sukhoi Log. The Union Card holders living in these towns can now make payments to MTS, Beeline, MegaFon, BaikalWestCom, Motive, Tele2-Russia, Skylink, and NTV-Plus. The bank will start dealing with payments to MegaFon Ural, Utel, and some other companies in the near future.

The bank has already been accepting Visa and MasterCard for such transactions via 74 ATMs in Yekaterinburg and Sverdlovsk Region. There is no comission, reports the press officer for the bank.