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We generate revenues from licenses, maintenance and support services and consulting services. We receive license revenues from licensing our UP.Link Server Suite software directly to network operators and indirectly through value-added resellers. From our inception through June 30, 1999, cumulative revenues from licensing our UP.Link Server Suite software represented 51% of total cumulative revenues, inclusive of installation, training and support services provided to network operators. Maintenance and support services revenues also include engineering and support services provided to wireless telephone manufacturers. Cumulative engineering and support services fees from UP.Browser agreements with wireless telephone manufacturers represented 34% of our total cumulative revenues from inception through June 30, 1999. Consulting services revenues are derived from consulting services provided to network operator customers either directly by us or indirectly through resellers. In September 1999, we announced MyPhone, our mobile Internet portal platform. We expect to incur significant additional expenses in developing and commercializing the MyPhone service, including costs relating to operating the portal, as well as sales and marketing and research and development expenses. We expect to incur these costs and expenses in advance of generating revenues from this service and cannot be certain that our business model for the MyPhone service will result in significant revenues or profitability. Our future success depends on our ability to increase revenues from sales of products and services to new and existing network operator customers. If the market for Internet-based services via wireless telephones fails to develop or develops more slowly than expected, then our business would be materially and adversely affected. In addition, because there is a relatively small number of network operators worldwide, any failure to sell our products to network operator customers successfully could result in a shortfall in revenues that could not be readily offset by other revenue sources. We also anticipate that network operators may defer commercial launches of services based on our product and services as they divert their resources and efforts to ensure year 2000 compliance. 22 Our business strategy also relies to a significant extent on the widespread propagation of UP.Browser-enabled telephones through our relationships with network operators and wireless telephone manufacturers. In order to encourage adoption of UP.Browser-enabled wireless telephones, we license our UP.Browser software to wireless telephone manufacturers free of per-unit royalties and other license fees and provide maintenance and support services for an annual flat fee. As of September 1999, we had licensed UP.Browser to 25 wireless telephone manufacturers. As of September 1999, 10 wireless telephone manufacturer customers had made commercial shipments of telephones with the UP.Browser embedded. In addition, as of September 1999, we are currently providing engineering support services in connection with 60 browser integration projects.
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