Appendix I
NUMBERS OF
CASH MACHINES
LINK reports the number of Cash Machines that
it has (eg on its web site) as the sum of the number of Cash Machines
that each Member reports to LINK that it has. This is consistent
with the number of Cash Machines that other organisations (eg
APACS) report. However, this approach could be subject to slight
inaccuracies since it depends upon the accuracy and consistency
of the reporting of each of some 40 different organisations that
operate Cash Machines in the UK. To provide complete consistency
and accuracy we have examined our transaction records to determine
how many different Cash Machines were operational and processing
customer transactions in October of 2002, 2003 and 2004 to provide
the most accurate possible figures for the number of free and
fee charging Cash Machines.
| Month | Free Cash Machines
Number
% Growth
| % of Total | Fee Charging Cash Machines
Number
% Growth
| % of Total |
Total Cash Machines
Number% Growth
| | | |
| | | |
| October 2004 | 33,700 | 3.5%
| 63% | 19,659 | 24.7%
| 37% | 53,359 | 12%
|
October 2003 | 32,557
| 4.2% | 67% | 15,761
| 56% | 33% | 48,318
| 17% |
October 2002 | 31,223
| 3.1% | 75% | 10,066
| 72% | 25% | 41,289
| 14% |
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In October 2004 of the 33,700 Free Cash Machines, 19,655
were at branches of LINK Members and 14,045 were at other locations.
We have also identified, in the past year:
— 111 Cash Machines that were free in October 2003
were fee charging in October 2004 and,
— 100 Cash Machines at which a fee was charged in
October 2003 were free in October 2004.
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