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  CHINA UNICOM EXPANDS RELATIONSHIP WITH OPENWAVE TO POWER MOBILE DATA SERVICES
  

  REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - December 9, 2003 -- Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV), the leading provider of open software products and services for the communications industry, today announced that China Unicom (Nasdaq: CHU) has expanded its relationship with Openwave and recently deployed additional licenses of Openwave® Mobile Access Gateway (MAG), the most proven, interoperable and standards-compliant WAP gateway available today.

With 85 million voice subscribers, China Unicom is one of the world?s largest wireless network operators. In May of 2003 the company launched a data service called Unicom Unlimited on its 3G CDMA network and in a matter of months attracted 1.5 million data subscribers, making it one of the fastest growing and most successful data services in the world. Based on the rapid growth of the service, China Unicom looked to expand its MAG licensing agreement with Openwave, adding another 3.5 million WAP licenses to the Unicom network, making the total of WAP licenses 5 million.

"China Unicom is the innovation leader in the world's largest wireless market," said David Hose, senior vice president and chief development officer for Openwave. "By expanding our MAG solution on their network, they are taking advantage of the world's most sophisticated data infrastructure for launching differentiated data services such as XHTML content, downloads, games and multi-media messaging."

Openwave MAG is the most proven, interoperable and standards-compliant WAP gateway supporting all new WAP handsets entering the market. Openwave MAG already is part of the infrastructure at more than 70 communication service providers representing more than 70 million WAP users all over the world.

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.

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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.

 
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