Soon you will be able to access this site from your CDMA phone.
(There is already an AMPS version of internet accessability on a device call a PAL phone produced by PCSI using Unwired Planet's technology)
"QUALCOMM Signs License Agreement and Makes Equity Investment in Unwired Planet(TM)"
SAN DIEGO, Calif., January 8, 1997 -- QUALCOMM Incorporated today announced the signing of a license agreement
with Unwired Planet(TM) Inc., and an equity investment in Unwired Planet. The license agreement grants QUALCOMM
the right to incorporate Unwired Planet's innovative UP.Link(TM) product into QUALCOMM's Code Division Multiple
Access (CDMA) digital phone models and other wireless devices. Financial terms of the license agreement and equity
investment were not disclosed.
"QUALCOMM has made a commitment to support a host of data services with our entire subscriber products line. Our
CDMA data services are based on standard Internet protocols enabling QUALCOMM's CDMA digital phones to provide
true wireless Internet access," said Dr. Paul E. Jacobs, senior vice president and general manager of QUALCOMM's
subscriber products group.
"With Unwired Planet's browser running on QUALCOMM digital phones, CDMA subscribers will soon be able to access
information available on the Internet without compromising their mobility."
Using a language specification created by Unwired Planet called Handheld Device Markup Language (HDML), UP.Link
provides an open, Web-based software platform for the creation and deployment of Internet-based applications. Designed
specifically for the challenges of the mobile telephony market, the advanced UP.Link platform brings the concept of a
standard client/server network to wireless hand-held communication devices.
Because HDML applications are device- and network-independent, developers can easily write applications that leverage a
company's existing server infrastructure and web site content. Key business information and tools such as electronic mail,
corporate telephone directories, stock quotes, fax-on-demand, lead tracking, and customer order status can all be made
visible to cellular phones and two-way pagers running UP.Link.
"Unwired Planet's UP.Link platform has been embraced by phone manufacturers, carriers, integrators, and developers
because it offers an elegant solution to adding software intelligence to pocket-size communication devices," said Alain
Rossmann, chairman and CEO of Unwired Planet.
"QUALCOMM's investment in Unwired Planet will accelerate the availability of leading-edge CDMA digital phones which
integrate Unwired Planet's Internet access technology."
Except for historical information contained herein, this news release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to
risks and uncertainties, including timely product development and commercial implementation of the Company's CDMA
technology, continued growth in CDMA subscriber population and the scale up and operations of CDMA systems, timing
and receipt of license fees and royalties, the Company's ability to successfully manufacture significant quantities of CDMA
or other equipment on a timely and profitable basis and those related to performance guarantees, change in economic
conditions of the various markets the Company serves, as well as other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's
SEC reports, including the report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 29, 1996 and most recent Form 10-Qs.
CONTACT: Joanne Coleman, Subscriber Products Group, 619/651-8768 or jcoleman@qualcomm.com, or James Lee,
Corporate Communications, 619/651-2381 or c_jlee@qualcomm.com, or Molly Foerster, Investor Relations,
619/658-4844 or mfoerster@qualcomm.com. |
