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  PRAIRIECOMM SELECTS OPENWAVE AND IBM TECHNOLOGIES TO BRING AFFORDABLE 3G PHONES TO MARKET
  

  PrairieComm Win Comes Less than Two Months after Launch
 
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - July 28, 2004 -- Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV), the leading provider of open software products and services for the communications industry, today announced that Openwave® Phone Suite Version 7 (V7), including the pre-integrated IBM® WebSphere® Everyplace Micro Environment (WEME), will be available as part of PrairieComm's FronTier 3G reference phone platforms. PrairieComm delivers chipsets, embedded software and licensed intellectual property to leading consumer electronics companies serving the wireless market.

PrairieComm's multimedia-rich FronTier 3G reference phone platform boasts a bill of materials similar to existing 2.5G handsets to reduce the cost of delivering 3G phones, while its highly integrated design facilitates the creation of small, stylish form-factors suitable for mass-market data phones. By combining Openwave V7 with PrairieComm's platform, handset manufacturers get a hardware design and application framework that meets the demands of 3G operators worldwide across the broadest base of users. Openwave's powerful V7 client software, including IBM's Java™-based client technology, will be available first on PrairieComm's FronTier110 platform, a UMTS/GSM/GPRS platform for mass-market data phones.

"Affordable and exciting UMTS phones are critical to the success of 3G," said Rob Williams, general manager of the client product group at Openwave. "As more and more operators roll out their 3G networks and services, PrairieComm is well positioned to help manufacturers deliver the next generation of market leading handsets."

"Openwave's industry-leading messaging and browser solutions, along with IBM's WEME solution, are perfect additions to PrairieComm's FronTier 3G reference phone platform," said Jeff Bennett, Director of 3G Marketing, PrairieComm, Inc. "The collaboration of our companies creates a full-featured yet flexible 3G offering that is unrivaled in the industry."

About Openwave Phone Suite V7
 
Several leading phone manufacturers have licensed and plan to utilize Openwave Phone Suite V7 in phones scheduled to ship during this year. The suite provides a one stop solution for meeting carrier requirements for browsing, client provisioning, download, digital rights management, java, multimedia messaging, email, synchronization, file management, device management, instant messaging, and mobile location. V7 also features groundbreaking user interface capabilities allowing operators and manufacturers to harness the power of the phone, innovating on top of core mobile data technologies to deliver custom experiences and new value added data services for end users.

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 PrairieComm
 
PrairieComm, Inc. (www.prairiecomm.com), based in Rolling Meadows, Ill., develops and markets chipsets, embedded software and licensed intellectual property for TDMA, GSM, CDMA, EDGE, and UMTS (WCDMA). PrairieComm's innovative products are at the heart of wireless personal communications providing chipsets for mobile wireless products from the world's leading consumer electronics manufacturers.

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

For further information:
 
Contact Openwave Worldwide Public Relations

PrairieComm
Jeff Bennett
Director of 3G Marketing
847-871-1881
jeff.bennett@prairiecomm.com

Emily Anderson
Corporate Communications
847.871.1842
emily.anderson@prairiecomm.com

  



 
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