[December 6, 2000]

Proactive Technology Holdings, MIND CTI Partner To Deliver Telecom Solution Integrating Traditional And IP Telephony

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Proactive Technology Holdings Limited, a provider of telecommunications and computer telephony solutions in Asia Pacific, and MIND CTI Ltd., a provider of billing and customer care solutions, announced that they have signed a partnership agreement to provide a turn-key business solution for service providers wishing to offer both IP and wireline telephony.

The combined product solution of the MIND-iPhonEX Billing and Customer Care solution and the GlobalCall Gateway will operate with switches like the Excel Switching platform from Lucent Technologies. The two companies pledge to cooperate in marketing and sales efforts of the joint product solution.

"MIND values the partnership with Proactive, a forward looking company that provides telecommerce solutions in the Asia Pacific region. This alliance enhances MIND's position as a provider of comprehensive solutions for NextGen carriers," commented Zeev Braude, MIND Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. "The combined technologies of Proactive and MIND will offer the market a new product solution that can be implemented worldwide."

Mr. Barry Lau, Chief Operating Officer of Proactive, said, "MIND's billing systems are highly recognized and are installed by major carriers worldwide. Combining MIND-iPhonEX Billing and Customer Care solution with our GlobalCall Gateway, enables us to provide a complete set of integrated Tandem and International Gateway switching solutions with a reliable, carrier class, real time billing system."

With the MIND-iPhonEX billing and customer care solution, Next-Gen carriers are able to offer pre- and post-paid services. GlobalCall Gateway provides integrated Tandem and International Gateway switch functions, with a variety of revenue-generating enhanced service modules, such as pre- and post-paid calling cards, personal number service, voice/fax mail, international call-back, short message service, and Virtual Private Networks (VPN), etc. The MIND-iPhonEX real-time call handling mechanism will be able to perform the authentication, authorization and accounting for both IP and wireline calls. By implementing the joint product solution, carriers will be able to meet the changing needs of the dynamic telecommunications market. MIND-iPhonEX and GlobalCall together will enable service providers to offer multiple services on one platform and present subscribers with one bill for all the services used.

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