Palo Alto, Calif. – April 25, 2000 – Online Planet today announced CallSense™ for Windows, the first personal finance software that enables you to see true cost comparisons of AT&T vs. MCI vs. Sprint vs. the most popular 10-10 dial around numbers based on how you actually use your phone. CallSense is the easy, accurate, and complete way to compare, select, and use the best, least-expensive residential long distance calling plan for you.

Easy
Everyone can use CallSense. You just enter your calls, select which calling plans you want to compare, and CallSense does the rest for you. CallSense makes it point-and-click easy to make sense of the complex long distance calling plan pricing games.

Accurate: True Costs
Online Planet sets the standard. For the first time, you can now easily and accurately compare residential long distance calling plans to the penny including all of the costs that vary by phone company and calling plan such as USF, PICC, minimums, per call surcharges, company specific pricing rules, ... CallSense can accurately calculate true costs across billing periods, calling plans, and phone companies. To achieve this level of precision, CallSense actually simulates the billing and account management systems used by the phone companies on your desktop computer.

Complete
CallSense enables you to accurately compare the most popular calling plans; accurately compare the most popular 10-10 dial around numbers for each call; and even accurately see how much you are saving, or could be saving, while you are still on the phone.

Interactive True Costs Billboard
CallSense includes an interactive true costs billboard that enables you to see for the first time how AT&T compares to MCI compares to Sprint compares to the 10-10 dial around numbers based on how you actually use your phone. You simply select which calling plans you want to compare, and then use either the time calculator or phone usage meter controls to calculate true cost comparisons before you call, or while you are still on the phone.

Interactive "True Costs" Call Savings Calculator
CallSense includes a "true costs" calls savings calculator that enables you to enter all of your long distance phone calls from one or more phone bills. You can compare a specific call, or you can perform true cost comparisons of all of your entered calls. In addition, if your calls span multiple billing periods, CallSense will accurately calculate true cost comparisons across billing periods.

Private
All calls entered into the call savings calculator are stored on your personal computer’s hard drive, and so you do not need to disclose your private call information and home phone number to external parties.