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MTS Receives a 2009 INTERNET TELEPHONY TEM Excellence Award

MTS Receives a 2009 INTERNET TELEPHONY TEM Excellence Award

AnchorPoint TEM Honored as Exceptional Telecom Expense Management Solution

Anana, Israel (PRWEB) November 18, 2009

Ra’ MTS-Mer Telemanagement Solutions Ltd. (Nasdaq Capital Market: MTSL), a global provider telecommunications expense management (TEM) solutions and AnchorPoint, A Division of MTS announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) has named AnchorPoint TEM as a recipient of the 2009 INTERNET TELEPHONY TEM Excellence Award presented by INTERNET TELEPHONYmagazine.

“It’s an honor to be recognized for this inaugural TEM Excellence Award,” said Eytan Bar, CEO, MTS. “As a Telecom Expense Management technology and services leader our goal is to deliver solutions that enable our customers to reduce their telecom costs, maximize the return on their communications investments and facilitate visibility into mission critical telecom services and related costs.”

Offered as a software license, hosted or outsourced solution, AnchorPoint TEM enables customers to intelligently manage, plan, optimize, and reduce their communications and network investments. AnchorPoint customer engagements begin with Map-to-WinSM, AnchorPoint’s strategic consulting approach. Map-to-WinSM enables organizations to effectively align their business goals with their people, process and technology investments, and to achieve these results quickly.

In addition to TEM, MTS is a global provider of service provider business support systems (BSS) and customer care & billing (CC&B) solutions. AnchorPoint was acquired by MTS in 2008.

“For recognition of their contributions to the growth and innovation displayed in the market, we are very pleased to present MTS with a 2009 INTERNET TELEPHONY TEM Excellence Award. The AnchorPoint TEM solution is a valuable contribution to telecom expense management and most importantly MTS has delivered winning solutions for its clients,” stated Rich Tehrani], CEO, TMC.

The INTERNET TELEPHONY TEM Excellence Award honors businesses that have exhibited excellence in supporting their customers’ initiatives to optimize costs through telecom expense management products and solutions.

The 2009 INTERNET TELEPHONY TEM Excellence Award winners are published in the December 2009 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, itmag. com.

For more information, please visit tmcnet. com.

About MTS

MTS is a worldwide provider of innovative solutions for comprehensive telecommunications expense management (TEM) used by enterprises, and for business support systems (BSS) used by information and telecommunication service providers.

Since 1984, MTS’s expense management solutions have been used by thousands of enterprises and organizations to ensure that their telecommunication services are acquired, provisioned, and invoiced correctly. In addition, the MTS’s Application Suite has provided customers with a unified view of telecommunication usage, proactive budget control, personal call management, employee cost awareness and more.

AnchorPoint’s TEM solutions, which MTS acquired in December 2008, enable enterprises to gain visibility and control of strategic assets that drive key business processes and crucial competitive advantage. AnchorPoint’s software, consulting and managed services solutions, including integrated Invoice, Asset, and Usage Management and Business Analytics tools, provide professionals at every level of the organization with rapid access to concise, actionable data.

MTS's solutions for Information and Telecommunication Service Providers are used worldwide by wireless and wireline service providers for interconnect billing, partner revenue management and for charging and invoicing their customers. MTS has pre-configured solutions to support emerging carriers of focused solutions (e. g., IPTV, VoIP, WiMAX, MVNO) to rapidly install a full-featured and scalable solution.

Headquartered in Israel, MTS markets its solutions through wholly owned subsidiaries in the United States, Hong Kong, The Netherlands, and Brazil, as well as through OEM partnerships with Siemens, Phillips, NEC and other vendors. MTS shares are traded on the NASDAQ Capital Market (symbol MTSL). For more information please visit the MTS web site: http://www. mtsint. com.

Certain matters discussed in this news release are forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to, risks in product development plans and schedules, rapid technological change, changes and delays in product approval and introduction, customer acceptance of new products, the impact of competitive products and pricing, market acceptance, the lengthy sales cycle, proprietary rights of the Company and its competitors, risk of operations in Israel, government regulations, dependence on third parties to manufacture products, general economic conditions and other risk factors detailed in the Company’s filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

About INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine
INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the IP Communications Authority since 1998™. Beginning with the first issue in February of 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been providing unbiased views of the complicated converged communications space. INTERNET TELEPHONY offers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine reaches more than 225,000 readers, including pass-along readers. For more information, please visit http://www. itmag. com.

About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is a global, integrated media company helping our clients build communities in print, in person and online. TMC publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and NGN magazines. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMCnet is read by two million unique visitors each month on average

Worldwide, according to Webtrends. TMCnet has ranked within the top 3,500 in Quantcast's Top U. S. sites, placing TMCnet in the nation’s top.03% most visited Web sites. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO (ITEXPO); 4GWE Conference and M2M Evolution (in conjunction with Crossfire Media); Digium|Asterisk World (in conjunction with Digium); and Smart Grid Summit (in conjunction with Intelligent Communication Partners). For more information about TMC, visit http://tmcnet. com/.
TMC also serves technology professionals with industry-specific Web sites: IT. TMCnet. com, 4G-wirelessevolution. TMCnet. com, M2M Evolution. com, Smart-Grid. TMCnet. com, Smart Products Ecosystem, Robotics. TMCnet. com, Cable. TMCnet. com, Satellite. TMCnet. com, Green. TMCnet. com, Healthcare. TMCnet. com, and Education. TMCnet. com.
For more information about TMC, visit http://www. tmcnet. com.

MTS Contact:
Michael Grillo
Vice President, Marketing
508-628-4594

TMC Contact: 
Jan Pierret
Marketing Manager
203-852-6800, ext. 228

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