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  TELUS MOBILITY LAUNCHES PICTURE MESSAGING USING OPENWAVE'S LATEST SOFTWARE PRODUCTS
  

  Openwave Multimedia Messaging Service Center and WAP2 Gateway Used For TELUS Mobility Picture Messaging
 
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - October 28, 2003 -- Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWVD), the leading independent provider of open software products and services for the communications industry, today announced that Canadian wireless telecom provider TELUS Mobility is using multiple software products from Openwave to launch differentiated data services, including picture messaging and games and music on phones.

TELUS Mobility's new camera phone and picture messaging service leverages Openwave's Multimedia Messaging Services Center (MMSC), Openwave Mobile Messaging Client, and Openwave Mobile Access Gateway 6. Openwave's software helps TELUS Mobility's clients easily send their photos to another TELUS Mobility camera phone or to any email address worldwide. Additionally, TELUS Mobility is using Openwave Download Manager and Openwave Provisioning Manager in support of TELUS Mobility's downloadable Java games and applications, which will be rolled out shortly.

"TELUS Mobility offers a uniquely personalized and integrated user experience to our clients across Canada," said Robert Blumenthal, Vice President of Products and Services at TELUS Mobility. "Openwave is an integral part of TELUS Mobility's delivery of picture messaging and Java download services to the market."

"TELUS Mobility helped pioneer the use of mobile phones as information, business productivity and entertainment devices," said David Hose, senior vice president and chief development officer at Openwave. "We look forward to further exploring our partnership with TELUS Mobility and to providing them with other flexible software solutions that will help them continue to set their services apart from the competition." For more information on Openwave's products, please go to http://www.openwave.com/.

About Openwave
 
Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV) is the leading independent provider of open software products and services for the communications industry. Openwave's breadth of products, including mobile phone software, multimedia messaging software (MMS), email, location and mobile gateways, along with its worldwide expertise enable its customers to deliver innovative and differentiated data services. Openwave is a global company headquartered in Redwood City, California. For more information please visit www.openwave.com.

About TELUS Mobility
 
TELUS Mobility provides its more than 3 million clients across Canada with a full suite of wireless voice, Internet and data services through its PCS and Mike digital wireless networks. For more about TELUS Mobility, please visit www.telusmobility.com.

TELUS (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) is the largest telecommunications company in Western Canada and the second largest in the country, with 25,000 team members. The company provides subscribers with a full range of telecommunications products and services including data, voice and TELUS Mobility wireless services across Canada, utilizing next generation internet-protocol-based network technologies. TELUS was a premier founding supporter of the successful bid to bring the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games to Canada. For more information about TELUS, please visit telus.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 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 our software; (c) the ability to successfully partner with other companies; (d) increased global competition; (e) technological changes and developments; and (f) 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 the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2003, and any subsequently filed reports. 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, the Openwave logo and Services OS are trademarks of Openwave Systems Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

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