China Mobile Communications Corporation (CMCC), China's Largest Cellular Provider, Selects Openwave and Siemens to Enable Wireless Internet Services in ChinaSiemens to Use Openwave Platform to Deliver Mobile Internet to the People's Republic of China
PR NEWSWIRE - January 22, 2001 16:02
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan 22, 2001 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV), the combination of Phone.com and Software.com, and Siemens today announced that the companies have been chosen by China Mobile Communications Corporation (CMCC), China's largest mobile carrier and the world's largest single operator network, to supply mobile Internet services to subscribers in China, including four of CMCC's largest markets. Under the terms of the agreement, CMCC will be using the Openwave(TM) WAP-compatible UP.Link(TM) Server and Mobile Management Server (MMS) subscriber auto-registration technology to enable wireless Internet access to over half of its subscriber base. CMCC had more than 66 MM subscribers at the end of 2000 and is the country's dominant operator, owning 80% of the cellular market share in China.
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Openwave's technology will provide wireless Internet access to subscribers in 11 provinces throughout China, covering a total population of 475 MM people, including Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian and Shandong, 4 of CMCC's top 5 mobile subscriber provinces. In addition, CMCC will make the technology available in Shanghai, Hainan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Tibet. Using the Openwave technology, CMCC subscribers will be able to access their e-mail, information-on-demand services such as news, stock trading, stock charting, online shopping, flight and train schedules, online games, horoscope, and other localized information. In addition, subscribers will have personal information management services, such as calendaring functions and personal organizers. Deployment of these WAP-based services is planned for the first calendar quarter of 2001.
With Openwave's MMS subscriber auto-registration technology, CMCC enables its subscribers to seamlessly activate their mobile Internet service through their handsets. This automated solution promotes rapid consumer adoption, greater customer control and increased customer satisfaction while significantly lowering CMCC's operating costs.
One of Siemens joint venture companies in China, Siemens Shanghai Mobile Communications Ltd. (SSMC), will implement the backbone WAP-Gateway Systems using Openwave's technology in Shanghai and Guangzhou with the capacity for more than 1,000,000 mobile Internet subscribers. Siemens will provide the high availability solution, services and installation support. "Siemens and Openwave ideally complement each other's core competencies. Once again, as a team we are faster than the competition," said Wang Weiguo, VP of Market Development, Mobile Data at Siemens China.
"Our newest partnership with CMCC further proves our commitment to working with leading carriers worldwide. We're proud to work with CMCC and Siemens to make leading-edge wireless technology available to one of the fastest growing and largest markets in the world," said Paul Adkins, General Manager of Openwave Systems, Asia Pacific.
About Openwave
Openwave Systems Inc., the combination of Phone.com and Software.com, is the worldwide leader of open Internet-based communication infrastructure software and applications. Openwave is a global company headquartered in Redwood City, California. For more information, please visit www.openwave.com.
About Siemens Shanghai Mobile Communications
Siemens Shanghai Mobile Communications is a joint venture between Shanghai Video and Audio Corp. (26%), Shanghai Mobile Communications Corporation (10%), First Research Institute of Telecommunications Scientific Technology of MII (4%) and Siemens China Ltd. (60%). Production capacities are at present sufficient for around 10 million mobile phones and 80,000TRX(about 16000-20000 mobile base stations) per year. The proportion of regional added value is over 60 percent. Since 1993, the sales volume has been doubled almost every year. The sales volume during 1999-2000 fiscal year has reached a total of RMB 7,35 billion (DM 1,8 billion). SSMC has established over 34 GSM networks across China for China Mobile and China Unicom in 26 provinces and municipalities. At present, it has more than 2,100 excellent employees.
About China Mobile Communications Corporation
China Mobile Communications Corporation is the primary telecommunications provider in China. The company is a state-owned enterprise, which is established on the base of reorganization in the field of telecommunications in China. There are all-capital subsidiary companies in 25 provinces. China Telecom (Hong Kong) Co. Ltd. is China Mobile's holding company.
China Mobile provides mobile voice service, data services, IP telephony service and multimedia services. Additionally, China Mobile is one of the members of the international computer network and is authorized to provide international networking services. The corporation is the largest GSM mobile communications provider in the world whose mobile network covers all the cities and over 96 percent of the rural towns in China. China Mobile provides roaming service with the cooperation of 108 operators in 59 countries and has more than 66 million customers.
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 of Openwave to manage a complex set of engineering, marketing and distribution relationships; (b) competition and technological changes and developments; and (c) 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 Phone.com's and Software.com's respective Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2000, Phone.com's and Software.com's most recently filed Annual Reports on Form 10-K, and Phone.com's registration statement on Form S-4 as declared effective on September 28, 2000. 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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CONTACT: Rowan Benecke of PR21, 415-369-8102, or rowan_benecke@pr21.com, for Openwave Systems Inc.; or Linda Tay of Openwave Systems (HK) Ltd, 852-9669-4668, or linda.tay@openwave.com, for Openwave Systems Asia Pacific; or Uwe Romppell of Siemens Mobile Solutions, 86-021-58541688, ext. 286, or uwe.romppel@icn.siemens.de /Photo: NewsCom: newscom.com AP Archive: photoarchive.ap.org PRN Photo Desk, 888-776-6555 or 201-369-3467
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