Phone.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: PHCM), a leading provider of mobile Internet software, applications and services, announced that Nextel will be using the Phone.com™ UP.Link™ Server Suite Release 4.0 to deliver wireless Internet services to Nextel Online customers as it begins rolling out its new national service today. Nextel will use Release 4.0 of the UP.Link Server to offer a suite of wireless data and Internet services. Nextel subscribers will be able to access the Nextel Online applications and the Internet using Motorola iDEN® “plus” series handsets, which are equipped with Phone.com's UP.Browser™ microbrowser.

The combination of the newly launched Nextel Online applications and Phone.com’s UP.Link Server Suite enables Nextel to offer a robust platform for communicating and facilitating business. Approximately 2 million national Nextel customers who use the iDEN “plus” series phones will have the opportunity to enjoy a single, wireless business communication tool that integrates wireless Internet service, Nextel Direct Connect® digital two-way radio service, digital cellular service, and text/numeric paging into one phone.

“Nextel has been shipping UP.Browser-enabled phones since June of last year. We recognize that the wireless Internet is becoming every bit as valuable a tool as the mobile phone, ” said Tom Kelly, executive vice president marketing and strategic planning, Nextel Communications. “Whether people will use their mobile phones to check and send email, look up stocks or directions to their child's basketball game, Phone.com’s UP.Link Server will allow us to deliver the Internet-based services and content our subscribers need and demand. ”

“The use of both our UP.Browser and UP.Link Server will provide Nextel Online subscribers with quick, easy access to the Internet, ” said Ben Linder, vice president of marketing for Phone.com. “Phone.com is committed to providing superior software solutions to carriers and handset manufacturers that meet the growing needs of their customers as the mobile world becomes more reliant on wireless tools for conducting business and exchanging information. ”

Phone.com has licensed its UP.Browser microbrowser to 30 mobile phone manufacturers including Motorola, NeoPoint, Qualcomm, Siemens and Samsung. The addition of Phone.com's UP.Browser to Nextel's iDEN “plus” series phones will enable those phones to deliver standards-based, secure and scalable interactive applications, without adding to their cost or size. Phone.com's UP.Link Server has been licensed to 60 network operators worldwide, providing subscribers with live email services as well as Internet and intranet information services and applications.

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