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AnchorPoint and Mobile Maestria Announce Business Agreement

Leading U.S. Telecom Expense Management Provider Partners with Leading Canadian Mobile Expense Management Vendor

Aug 26, 2009 - Framingham, MA - AnchorPoint, a leading provider of integrated Telecom Expenses Management (TEM) solutions announced today a business partner agreement with Mobile Maestria, a Canadian-based solution provider of wireless expense management systems. Under this partnership, AnchorPoint, A Division of MTS and Mobile Maestria will offer complementary full TEM lifecycle fixed and wireless TEM services to their respective customers.

According to Roger Challen, Division CEO, AnchorPoint, “Mobile Maestria is the leading wireless TEM provider in Canada. By combining their industry and customer expertise with AnchorPoint’s leading wireline capabilities, we are offering a “best of breed solution” to the Canadian market. This partnership reinforces our commitment to supporting our customers’ international TEM needs.”

Mobile Maestria is a leading telecom cost management provider in Canada specializing in the management of the corporate wireless lifecycle. The company maintains the distinction of being the first in Canada to provide complete web-based mobile usage and cost tracking in addition to wireless optimization services. With its MaestriaWebTM core service solution, Mobile Maestria is well positioned to provide both national and international corporate wireless expense management solutions.

“We’re excited to partner with AnchorPoint as it allows us to expand our solution offering beyond mobile management,” said, Normand Cyr, president of Mobile Maestria. “The partnership with AnchorPoint ensures Mobile Maestria capabilities for delivering a portfolio of both wireline and wireless TEM solutions. As a recognized TEM market leader with a solid portfolio of TEM solutions and services, AnchorPoint became the obvious choice to enable Mobile Maestria to deliver full telecom lifecycle management and additional savings to our clients.”

Offered as a software license, hosted or outsourced solution, both Mobile Maestria and AnchorPoint TEM enable 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.

About Mobile Maestria

Mobile Maestria is a leading wireless expense management solution provider. The flagship service tool MaestriaWebTM becomes the obvious choice for businesses seeking to considerably reduce their wireless telecommunications expenses as well as streamline the management of their wireless fleet including cellular phones, pagers, personal organizers, wireless network communication devices and calling cards. MaestriaWebTM is an innovative and intuitive solution designed by Mobile Maestria to provide clients with a set of powerful, seamless tools to manage wireless telecommunications services from both ends: usage and billing.

In addition to its Canadian TEM market leadership position, Mobile Maestria is the promoter of the Canadian Wireless Management Forum (www.wirelessmanagementforum.ca ), an annual event that gathers wireless industry innovators and corporate decision makers to learn, discuss and exchange ideas for better business in Canada.

For more information on Mobile Maestria, visit our web site at www.www.mobilemaestria.com.



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


Mobile Maestria Contact:
Normand Cyr | +1 203-852-6800 x228 | jpierret@tmcnet.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.