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Technology Stocks : Phone.com [PHCM]

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To: Jay King who wrote (541)9/30/1999 9:11:00 AM
From: Mark Oliver  Read Replies (2) of 1080
 
More again from the 10-K

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.

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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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