Thursday May 18, 8:05 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: Phone.com, Inc.
Phone.com's UP.Link Server and UP.Browser to Be Used in AT&T Digital PocketNet(SM) Service
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Phone.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: PHCM - news), a leading provider of mobile Internet software, applications and services, announced today that AT&T Wireless Group (NYSE: AWE - news) will be using the Phone.com(TM) UP.Link(TM) Server to deliver wireless Internet access to AT&T Digital PocketNet(SM) service customers as it begins rolling out its national service today. AT&T will use the UP.Link gateway to offer a suite of wireless data and Internet applications.
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AT&T subscribers will now be able to access the AT&T Digital PocketNet service applications and the Internet using two new digital, wireless, multi-network phones: the Mitsubishi handset model T250, and the Ericsson handset model R280. These new dual band, ``Quad Mode'' phones both use the Phone.com(TM) UP.Browser and will offer quick access to one of the world's largest digital wireless networks, including Web content, email, calendar, and other corporate data.
Phone.com's Developer Program is providing technical support to Web and application developers who wish to tailor their applications to AT&T Digital PocketNet service. The Phone.com UP.SDK(TM) software developer kit provides full support for AT&T's advanced packet-based Wireless IP network and phones. UP.SDK allows Internet-based applications to ``push'' urgent notifications and information directly to PocketNet Service phones. UP.SDK is available free-of-charge at developer.phone.com .
``AT&T has been an important partner of Phone.com's since 1996, and we are delighted to continue to power their PocketNet offering,'' said Ben Linder, vice president of marketing for Phone.com. ``AT&T's Wireless IP network provides excellent capabilities to both consumers and business users, including fast response time, excellent alert capabilities, and cost effectiveness.''
Phone.com has licensed its UP.Browser microbrowser to 30 leading mobile phone manufacturers including Motorola, NeoPoint, Qualcomm, Siemens and Samsung. The addition of Phone.com's UP.Browser to the Mitsubishi T250, and the Ericsson R280 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 58 network operators worldwide, providing subscribers with live email services as well as Internet and intranet information services and applications.
About Phone.com
Phone.com, Inc. is a leading provider of software and applications that enable the delivery of Internet-based voice and information services to mass-market wireless telephones. Using its software, wireless subscribers have access to Internet and corporate intranet-based services, including email, news, stocks, weather, travel and sports. In addition, subscribers have access via their wireless telephones to network operators' intranet-based telephony services, which may include unified messaging, voice dialing, over-the-air activation, billing history information, and pricing plan subscription. Phone.com is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California and has regional offices in Belfast, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Paris, Seoul and Tokyo. Visit phone.com for more information.
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this news release are forward-looking statements involving risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, Phone.com's limited operating history, potential fluctuations in Phone.com's operating results, uncertainties related to Phone.com's long sales cycle and reliance on a small number of customers, Phone.com's dependence on the acceptance of its products by network operators and wireless subscribers, Phone.com's ability to adequately address the rapidly-evolving market for delivery of Internet-based services through wireless telephones, the need to achieve widespread integration of Phone.com's browser in wireless telephones, competition from companies with substantially greater financial, technical, marketing and distribution resources and the ability of Phone.com to manage a complex set of engineering, marketing and distribution relationships. Further information regarding these and other risks are included in Phone.com's Form 10-Q for quarters ended September 30, 1999, and December 31, 1999, in its prospectus dated November 16, 1999 and in its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
NOTE: The Phone.com name and logo and the family of terms carrying the ``UP.'' prefix are trademarks of Phone.com, Inc. All other company, brand and product names may be marks that are the sole property of their respective owners.
CONTACT: Rowan Benecke of PR21, 415-369-8102, or rowan_benecke@pr21.com, for Phone.com, Inc.; or Kylie Trevitt of Text 100 Ltd., 44-0-181-242-4172, or kyliet@text100.co.uk, for
Phone.com (Europe) Limited; or Masaaki Yamamoto of Phone.com Japan K.K., 81-3-5325-9703, or masaaki@corp.phone.com.
SOURCE: Phone.com, Inc.
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