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To: cool who wrote (6312)	6/9/1999 2:53:00 PM
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-SPRINT: Sprint PCS licenses Phone.com's UP.Link server suite Presswire - June 08, 1999 13:13 Jump to first matched term M2 PRESSWIRE-8 June 1999-SPRINT: Sprint PCS licenses Phone.com's UP.Link server suite (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD * Sprint Will Use Phone.com's Software Platform to Bring Yahoo! and Other Internet Information Services to Sprint PCS Phones KANSAS CITY, Mo and REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Sprint and Phone.com, Inc. (formerly Unwired Planet, Inc.) announced today that Sprint PCS has licensed the Phone.com(tm) UP.Link(tm) Server Suite for use in its 100 percent digital, 100 percent PCS nationwide wireless network. The UP.Link Server Suite will enable Sprint PCS to bring its customers a wide variety of Internet information services including the recently announced Sprint PCS and Yahoo! services including email. Sprint PCS will deploy Phone.com's software in conjunction with its offer of nationwide wireless data services in the fourth quarter of this year. Sprint PCS is the nation's largest PCS provider with more than 3.35 million customers nationwide. "Customer's expectations of their Sprint PCS Phone's capabilities will be changing radically as we roll out exciting new services such as our recent announcement of Sprint PCS My Yahoo!," said Keith Paglusch, senior vice president of Operations for Sprint PCS. "The UP.Link Server Suite from Phone.com will allow us to effectively deliver these Internet information services such as Yahoo! to our customers nationwide." Phone.com's UP.Link Server Suite enables network operators to provide their subscribers with live email services as well as Internet and intranet information services and applications. "Sprint PCS' commitment to advanced technology, such as its 'all digital network' and our Phone.com software platform, provides a way for consumers to directly access Internet-based services from wireless phones," said Alain Rossmann, chairman and CEO of Phone.com. "The licensing of our UP.Browser(tm) will provide Sprint PCS customers with a wide selection of PCS phones equipped with Internet access." Phone.com has licensed its UP.Browser microbrowser to over 24 mobile phone manufacturers including Motorola, NeoPoint, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sony, and other CDMA manufacturers. The addition of Phone.com's UP.Browser to Sprint PCS phones will enable those phones to deliver standards-based, secure and scalable interactive applications, without adding to their cost or size. About Sprint PCS Sprint PCS operates the largest 100 percent digital, 100 percent PCS nationwide wireless network in the United States, already serving the majority of the nation's metropolitan areas including more than 4,000 cities and communities across the country. Sprint PCS has licensed PCS coverage of nearly 270 million people in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. For more information, visit the Sprint PCS web site at sprintpcs.com. Sprint PCS is a wholly owned tracking group of Sprint Corporation trading on the NYSE under the symbol "PCS." Sprint PCS is a global communications company at the forefront of integrating long distance, local and wireless communications services and one of the world's largest carriers of Internet traffic. Sprint built and operates the United States' only nationwide all-digital, fiber optic network and is a leader in advanced data communications services. Sprint has $17 billion in annual revenues and serves more than 17 million business and residential customers. About Phone.com Phone.com, Inc. (formerly Unwired Planet, Inc.) is a leading provider of software that enables the delivery of Internet-based 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 over-the-air activation, call management, billing history information, pricing plan subscription and voice message management. Phone.com is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California and has regional offices in London and Tokyo. CONTACT: Tom Murphy, Director of Media Relations, Sprint PCS Tel: +1 816 559 6703 e-mail: tmurph01@sprintspectrum.com Ashley Pindell, Sr. Manager of Media Relations, Sprint PCS Tel: +1 816 5596702 e-mail: apinde01@sprintspectrum.com M2 COMMUNICATIONS DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR INFORMATION PROVIDED WITHIN M2 PRESSWIRE. DATA SUPPLIED BY NAMED PARTY/PARTIES.