KANSAS CITY, Mo and REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (June 8, 1999) ¾ Sprint and Phone.com, Inc. (formerly Unwired Planet, Inc.) announced today that Sprint PCS has licensed the Phone.com™ UP.Link™ Server Suite for use in its 100 percent digital, 100 percent PCS nationwide wireless network. The UP.Link Server Suite will enable Sprint PCS to bring its customers a wide variety of Internet information services including the recently announced Sprint PCS and Yahoo! services including email. Sprint PCS will deploy Phone.com's software in conjunction with its offer of nationwide wireless data services in the fourth quarter of this year. Sprint PCS is the nation's largest PCS provider with more than 3.35 million customers nationwide.
"Customer's expectations of their Sprint PCS Phone's capabilities will be changing radically as we roll out exciting new services such as our recent announcement of Sprint PCS My Yahoo!," said Keith Paglusch, senior vice president of operations for Sprint PCS. "The UP.Link Server Suite from Phone.com will allow us to effectively deliver these Internet information services such as Yahoo! to our customers nationwide."
Phone.com's UP.Link Server Suite enables network operators to provide their subscribers with live email services as well as Internet and intranet information services and applications.
"Sprint PCS' commitment to advanced technology, such as its 'all digital network' and our Phone.com software platform, provides a way for consumers to directly access Internet-based services from wireless phones," said Alain Rossmann, chairman and chief executive officer of Phone.com. "The licensing of our UP.Browser™ will provide Sprint PCS customers with a wide selection of PCS phones equipped with Internet access."
Phone.com has licensed its UP.Browser microbrowser to over 24 mobile phone manufacturers including Motorola, NeoPoint, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sony, and other CDMA manufacturers. The addition of Phone.com's UP.Browser to Sprint PCS phones will enable those phones to deliver standards-based, secure and scalable interactive applications, without adding to their cost or size.
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