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  OPENWAVE SIGNS MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR CONTRACT TO PROVIDE NEW EMAIL MESSAGING PLATFORM FOR TELSTRA
  

  Openwave Mx 6 Allows Telstra To Deliver Enhanced Email Messaging Services to BigPond ISP customers
 
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - May 3, 2004 -- Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV), the leading provider of open software products and services for the communications industry, today announced that Telstra has selected Openwave as its preferred Internet messaging infrastructure supplier. Telstra will deploy Openwave's Email Mx Version 6 as part of a wide-ranging improvement program for Telstra's BigPond ISP service. Openwave's Email Mx is a highly scalable, integrated, platform used by a growing number of wireless carriers and internet service providers throughout the world to deliver email and multi-media messaging services.

"After carefully evaluating several high quality solutions, Openwave emerged as the preferred supplier for the next stage of this important infrastructure project," said Ted Pretty, group managing director, Telstra Technology Innovation and Product. "We expect Openwave's email platform will deliver a cost effective solution to handle more users and larger volumes of email, and will strengthen our platform to protect against spam and virus attacks."

"Openwave will deliver a cost-effective, proven carrier-class email solution for Telstra's BigPond customers," said Rich Wong, general manager of messaging applications at Openwave Systems. "We are committed to helping customers like Telstra enhance their users' experience. With over ten years of deploying software to wireline and wireless customers, in which our software handles more than 1.3 billion messages per day, we are well positioned to help Telstra provide the best email experience for its BigPond customers."

Openwave Email Mx Version 6.0 (Mx 6) is the next generation email and Internet messaging platform that gives service providers the ability to offer and support new messaging services to meet the demands of today's subscribers. Mx 6 delivers a leading-edge anti-abuse solution and a new web mail interface that offers a superior end user experience. The Openwave Mx 6 Extensions technology provides interfaces into message processing to give service providers the ability to efficiently and cost effectively develop new services or integrate value added third party applications such as anti-virus or anti-spam.

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.

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.

 
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