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  OPENWAVE AND ZOOMTOWN JOIN FORCES TO BRING VOICEXML-BASED UNIFIED MESSAGING TO MARKET
  

  Leading Broadband Provider to Deploy Platform from Openwave and Cisco
 
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and CINCINNATI, Ohio - September 5, 2001 -- Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV), the worldwide leader of open Internet-based communication infrastructure software and applications, and ZoomTown, the wholly-owned Internet broadband subsidiary of next-generation communications provider Broadwing Inc. (NYSE: BRW), today announced they are working together to bring a VoiceXML™-enabled unified messaging solution to market.

ZoomTown is working to deploy the Unified Messaging solution to its Cincinnati customers, enabling subscribers to access voicemail, email, and faxes from a single inbox. The Openwave™ Unified Messaging solution is designed to work with Cisco’s award-winning AS5300 universal gateway, used by ZoomTown to provide consistent broadband connectivity for subscribers. Using VoiceXML, an industry standard scripting language, enables ZoomTown to offer a simple and flexible unified messaging solution for its customers.

Each company will be contributing to the rollout of the new unified messaging service. Cisco’s sophisticated networking equipment combined with Openwave’s carrier-class VoiceXML-based platform and communications software creates a high-performance architecture with proven scalability, flexibility and reliability. ZoomTown, with one of the highest penetrations of broadband users in the country, adds a deep understanding of the consumer and business-user experience, which will help move the solution toward market deployment as a valuable communication tool for subscribers.

“ZoomTown, Cisco Systems, and Openwave all recognize the value of VoiceXML and the benefits that the Openwave Unified Messaging solution will deliver to end users,” said Marc Linden, group vice president and general manager at Openwave. “Openwave Unified Messaging is built to migrate easily from today’s networks to next-generation networks and further demonstrates Openwave’s commitment to continued leadership and innovation through an open, standards-based approach leveraging the strength of partners like Cisco and ZoomTown.”

As a key component of Openwave™ Messaging Services, Unified Messaging will provide a single inbox for access to voicemail, email messages, faxes, contact information, calendar, and task information. Users will be able to access and manage multiple messages easily, regardless of the message type or the device they choose to use—whether by computer, standard telephone or mobile phone. Openwave Unified Messaging enables “Voicemail Anywhere” by allowing users to forward voice messages to anyone with an Internet address. In addition, subscribers can use Reply-By-Voice to any type of message, and can personalize the service so that they will be notified of urgent emails or voice messages via the computer, telephone, or pager.

Subscribers also receive an integrated Personal Information Manager (PIM) for their address book and calendar and the ability to have their email messages audibly read to them via Text-To-Speech technology.

“Now, more than ever, people want to simplify their busy lives. A service that lets people send, receive, store, and retrieve any type of message from a single location is going to considerably simplify the way they communicate,” said Kurt Frehner, Director of Sales, Marketing and Product Definition for ZoomTown. “To help us deliver the VoiceXML service we wanted, we chose to work with industry leaders Cisco and Openwave because their combined solution is a scalable platform built on a reliable infrastructure that already serves over 180 million subscribers.”


About Openwave
 
Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV) is the worldwide leader of open IP-based communication infrastructure software and applications. Openwave is a global company headquartered in Redwood City, California. For more information, please visit www.openwave.com.

About  ZoomTown and Broadwing
 
With its award-winning ADSL network and one of the highest geographic penetrations of broadband subscribers in the nation, ZoomTown provides world-class Internet access to both business and residential customers in the greater Cincinnati area. In addition, ZoomTown offers emerging Internet companies a real-world environment in a representative U.S. city to successfully develop, trial, and launch the next-generation of Internet services. ZoomTown can be found on the Web at www.zoomtown.com and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Broadwing Inc. (NYSE: BRW).

Broadwing Inc. (NYSE: BRW) is parent to two of the industry’s leading communications companies, Broadwing Communications and Cincinnati Bell. Broadwing Communications, headquartered in Austin, Texas, leads the industry as the world’s first intelligent, all-optical, switched network provider and offers businesses nationwide a competitive advantage by providing data, voice and Internet solutions that are flexible, reliable and innovative on its 18,500-mile optical network and its award-winning IP backbone. Cincinnati Bell is one of the nation’s most respected and best performing local exchange and wireless providers with a legacy of unparalleled customer service excellence and financial strength. Cincinnati Bell provides a wide range of telecommunications products and services to residential and business customers in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Broadwing Inc. is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio and has 6,400 employees in 56 sales and service offices across the country. For more information, visit www.broadwing.com.


Cautionary Note Regarding Forward Looking Statements
 
This release contains forward-looking statements relating to expectations, plans or prospects for Openwave Systems Inc. that are based upon the current expectations and beliefs of Openwave’s management and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. In particular, the following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements: (a) the ability to make changes in business strategy, development plans and product offerings to respond to the needs of our current, new and potential customers, suppliers and strategic partners; (b) risks specifically associated with the integration of the businesses of Phone.com and Software.com and the ability to achieve the expected benefits of the merger (including but not limited to those risks associated with the ability to (i) integrate effectively the two companies’ product lines, technology, operations and personnel, and (ii)) effectively manage a larger more geographically dispersed organization); (c) risks associated with the development and licensing of software generally, including potential delays in software development and technical difficulties that may be encountered in the development or use of the Company’s software; and (d) general risks of the Internet and wireless and wireline telecommunications sectors.

For a detailed discussion of these and other cautionary statements, please refer to the risk factors discussed in filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including but not limited to Openwave's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended December 31, 2000 and March 31, 2001, Phone.com’s and Software.com’s most recently filed Annual Reports on Form 10-K, and Phone.com’s registration statement on Form S-4 as filed on October 10, 2000. All documents also are available through the SEC's Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval system (EDGAR) at www.sec.gov or from Openwave’s Web site at www.openwave.com. The Company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements included in this document.


 
Openwave and the Openwave logo are trademarks of Openwave Systems Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

For further information:
 
Contact Openwave Worldwide Public Relations

ZoomTown
Tressie Long
+1 513 397 5890
tressie.long@broadwing.com

  



 
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