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AnchorPoint Launches Version 6.3 of Telecom Expense Management Solution

Release 6.3 Features Expanded International Usage Tracking, Updated User Interface and Windows Vista® Support

Jan 29, 2009 - Framingham, MA - AnchorPoint, the leading provider of integrated Telecommunications Expense Management (TEM) solutions, announces the release of AnchorPoint Version 6.3. With an updated user interface, the company’s latest release unveils expanded international usage tracking and enhanced reporting options. AnchorPoint is a division of MTS – Mer Telemanagement Solutions Ltd. (Nasdaq: MTSL), a global provider of business support systems (BSS) for comprehensive telecommunication management and customer care & billing (CC&B) solutions.

AnchorPoint Version 6.3 extends enterprise options for international call tracking and costing. “With an increasing number of customers expanding and managing operations oversees, international usage tracking has become a critical factor for many enterprises,” stated Rebecca Mitchell, vice president, Solution Services. “In a global marketplace more and more customers are demanding this type of functionality. Our development approach continues to incorporate feedback from our customers and responding to the needs of the market.”

In addition to the international capabilities, AnchorPoint Version 6.3 introduces an updated user interface to the product and reporting platform. Building on the company’s award-winning reporting and Business Analytics capabilities for providing a 360 degree end-to-end view of crucial communications data, Version 6.3 also incorporates newer search options and more robust report scheduling capabilities. AnchorPoint has also finalized support for Microsoft ® Windows Vista® with this release.

“Telecom visibility, overhead reduction, and telecom inventory management are the top pressures for investing in telecom lifecycle management,” stated Hyoun Park, Research Editor with Aberdeen. “Our market research shows Best-in-Class organizations with a TEM solution have implemented a solution quickly, reduced landline and wireless expenses in a timely fashion and continue to keep their telecom spend under budget on an ongoing basis. TEM solutions like AnchorPoint are the starting block in helping enterprises to address these pressures and achieve Best-in-Class status.”

AnchorPoint TEM enables customers to intelligently manage, plan, optimize, and reduce their communications and network investments. AnchorPoint customer engagements begin with Map-to-Win^SM, AnchorPoint’s strategic consulting approach. Map-to-Win^SM enables organizations to effectively align their business goals with their people, process and technology investments, to assure the success of their expense management initiatives.

AnchorPoint Contact:
John Venditti | +1 508-628-4549 | john.venditti@mtsint.com

About Anchorpoint

AnchorPoint (www.AnchorPoint.com) is a leading provider of Telecom Expense Management Solutions that enable enterprises to gain visibility and control of strategic assets that drive key business processes and crucial competitive advantage. The company's award-winning 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. Armed with this knowledge, they can make smart operational and financial decisions that maximize the performance of core assets and services. From reducing costs and optimizing resources for superior ROI; from allocating budgets to ensuring regulatory compliance; from purchasing to payment; and everything in between, global leaders rely on AnchorPoint for absolute control over bottom line results.

AnchorPoint is a division of MTS - Mer Telemanagement Solutions Ltd. (Nasdaq: MTSL), a global provider of Telecom Expense Management (TEM) and customer care & billing (CC&B) solutions. 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: 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.