MTS – Mer Telemanagement Solutions Ltd. (Nasdaq: MTSL), a global provider of business support systems for comprehensive telecommunication management and customer care & billing solutions, today announced that its telecom solutions have enabled nearly 1,000 colleges, universities and school districts throughout the world to better analyze telecommunications expenses by accurately identifying billing problems and allowing them to reduce their overall telecom expenses. The MTS Application Suite instructs educational institution on the ABC’s of managing their telecom expenses — Accounting, Billing and Control. MTS solutions enable these institutions to check and track telecom expenses, while offering lost cost services to their students, faculty and administration.

MTS has sold its Application Suite to colleges and universities such as William Patterson University in New Jersey (USA) and the University of Johannesburg (formerly RAU) in South Africa. At the University of Johannesburg, which consists of 17 campuses/sites, the MTS Application Suite is used to bill students at discounted rates, charge faculty and administration calls to their respective departments, and track and monitor all calls relative to allocated budgets. The Texas Association of School Boards (TASB), which consists of over 1,000 districts throughout the state of Texas, is another example of an educational institution with demonstrated success utilizing the MTS Application Suite. The New York State Board of Education has used MTS solutions for more than 10 years to check, control and manage telecom expenses across its 400 plus school districts throughout the state, ensuring that expenses are billed to the appropriate district.

MTS’ Telecommunications Expense Management (TEM) solution features an automated simplified tool for managing, monitoring and routing invoices for payment or correction. Invoice data is transmitted from all sources, including calling cards, purchase orders, mobile lines and landlines, and automatically analyzed relative to real usage, thereby reducing overhead costs caused by invoice discrepancies, disputes and errors. MTS’ TEM solution is comprised of a number of modules that work in tandem to manage all telecommunications expenses, such as Invoice Management, Bill Verification, Call Accounting, and Workflow Management. The Invoice Management module facilitates full bill reconciliation, verifying charges with actual contracts and assets against their known inventories, and provides tracking for all discovered billing anomalies. Bill Verification automatically validates data from the PBX against the data provided by the service provider to ensure the rates, durations, and costs are all within the company’s tolerable levels. Workflow and procedure controls are maximized when MTS’ customizable process engine is utilized to define all corporate defined process steps, rules and data flow, as well as monitor and adjust them according to their individual business policies. Application Suite’s modular infrastructure allows for the suite to be purchased on a modular basis and expanded as the organization grows or desires additional features.

LEAD IP Systems Ltd, an innovative developer and supplier of IP-Telephony access solutions for broadband service providers, has introduced a new set of ISDN services for IP-Telephony operators.

One of the unique ISDN services is the Advice-Of-Charge (AOC) which allows the operator to provide billing information and metering services to hotels, hospitals, call centres etc. allowing customers to preserve capital investment in their internal billing systems.

Supporting AOC for both ETSI and Italtel standards, metering as well as currency formats, LEAD’s PowerGate CPE locally generates metering messages to the customer’s billing system.

Additional ISDN services such as DDI (Direct dialling into PBX extensions), MSN (Multiple numbers), Caller-ID, Trunk hunting and Trunk grouping, provides an IP-Telephony solution which fully replaces existing ISDN lines.

“We found out that ISDN installation tends to be more complex than POTS one. LEAD’s PowerGate CPE includes a built in ISDN wizard which indicates potential wiring, PBX or ISDN configuration errors.” said Oded Tubias, LEAD product manager, “This dramatically reduce the installation period and allows customers an easy and transparent switch from existing Telco lines to the alternative IP-Telephony access service.”

The PowerGate can further synchronise itself to existing Telco ISDN lines, offering multi-source service to the PBX – both traditional and IP. PowerGate comes in with 2 BRI (PowerGateD2+) or 4 BRI (PowerGateD4+) supporting 8 simultaneous calls per CPE with additional cascading of more units using the sync channel.

About LEAD IP Systems
LEAD IP Systems Ltd. an innovative developer and supplier of IP-Telephony access solutions for broadband service providers. LEAD provides an advanced multi-service Telephony, telecommunications systems and technologies for service creation, provisioning, management, SIP SoftSwitch and billing mediation. LEAD IP’s strategy is to offer breakthrough solutions that lavarage service providers services. The Company’s premier product, LEADsystem(TM), empowers service providers to create and provision new and differentiated revenue-generating services, rapidly and with the lowest Total Cost of Ownership and upfront investment. LEAD IP Systems Ltd., headquartered in Misgav, Israel, is a wholly owned subsidiary of LEAD Corporation Inc. located in, part of the BATT Corporation group.