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New York, NY – September 16, 2003 - Cobite announced today the immediate availability of a cross vendor analysis module to complement the existing cellular optimization component of the eXprts™ Telecom Financial Management system.

Building on its strength of helping organizations reduce their cellular spend by optimizing rate plans, the new module allows organizations to perform “what if” scenarios across multiple wireless vendors.

“With the impending November 24th deadline for wireless number portability, the last remaining barrier to switching providers is eradicated,” states Robert Lippman, President of Cobite. “Organizations are now able to switch between carriers while maintaining their existing cellular phone numbers.”

The new module will allow an organization to evaluate its actual current usage against rate plans from all major carriers. The analysis displays usage costs for the current vendor(s) and what the costs would be with competing vendors. As part of the study, rate plan optimization also occurs to show usage costs if all end users had been on a “best fit” plan and whether it should be a shared or individual plan.

The final aspect of the cell phone system is to perform invoice validation against contracts to insure corporate discounts are applied accurately and rate plan usage was correct.

Cobite offers the eXprts™ system as a hosted application or licensed to be run in-house. Additionally, Cobite offers services to assist organizations in performing rate plan changes to gain the substantial savings in a short time period with minimal company overhead. The eXprts™ system is capable of handling pagers, landline, LD and local vendors as well as cellular. The system allocates costs back to consuming divisions, departments or individuals.