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AirTouch Selects Phone.com's UP.Link Server Software to Create AirTouch Mobile Web
REDWOOD CITY and SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- AirTouch Cellular, part of Vodafone AirTouch Plc (NYSE and LSE: VOD), and Phone.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: PHCM - news) announced today that AirTouch Cellular has licensed the Phone.com(TM) UP.Link(TM) Server Software for use in its U.S. CDMA network. The UP.Link Server Software will enable AirTouch Cellular to bring its subscribers a wide variety of Internet information services. Phone.com's Professional Services group will assist AirTouch Cellular in rapidly integrating the UP.Link Server Software into its network.
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``Our relationship with Phone.com in the U.S. is an important ingredient in AirTouch Cellular's Mobile Web platform. Through this partnership, Phone.com has become an approved supplier for Vodafone AirTouch and its affiliates,' said Arun Sarin, CEO of Vodafone AirTouch's USA/Asia Pacific Region.
``We are very excited to be working with AirTouch Cellular on the new Mobile Web service and with Vodafone AirTouch Plc as an approved supplier throughout its worldwide network of carriers,' said Alain Rossmann, Chairman and CEO of Phone.com. ``With the Mobile Web Service, AirTouch is strengthening its market leadership and forming the base for a wealth of advanced services for its subscribers. Adding AirTouch as a customer greatly enhances our U.S. footprint.'
AirTouch plans to offer its Mobile Web Service on all of its Internet capable CDMA handsets this spring. The service will be available in its U.S. cellular markets and will enable customers to gain access to email, sports, news, financial and e-commerce services from the convenience of their digital phone.
Phone.com's UP.Link Server Software enables network operators to provide their subscribers with email services as well as Internet and intranet information services and applications. Phone.com has licensed its UP.Browser(TM) microbrowser to over 25 mobile phone manufacturers including Motorola, Qualcomm, Samsung, and other CDMA manufacturers. The addition of Phone.com's UP.Browser to mobile phones will enable those phones to deliver standards-based, secure and scaleable interactive applications, without adding to their cost or size.
About Phone.com
Phone.com, Inc. is a leading provider of software and services that enable the delivery of Internet-based 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 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 Belfast, Copenhagen, London and Tokyo. Visit phone.com for more information.
About AirTouch Cellular
AirTouch serves nearly 10 million U.S. cellular and PCS customers on a proportionate basis. Its ventures operate in 25 states and 22 of the top 30 U.S. markets, including Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle. AirTouch is part of Vodafone AirTouch Plc, the world's largest wireless communications firm, based in the United Kingdom. It has mobile operations in 24 countries on five continents, with more than 35.5 million proportionate cellular customers. For more information, visit the AirTouch web site at www.airtouch.com.
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; a change in economic conditions in the various markets served by AirTouch's operations which would adversely affect the level of demand for wireless services; intensified competitive activity requiring reduced pricing and/or new product offerings or resulting in an increased rate of customers terminating service (churn); slower customer growth as customers choose to receive service from other providers, and higher customer selling costs; declining average revenue per customer due to an increasing proportion of consumer customers and declining rates; growth in customers and usage driving increased investment in network capacity; the level of fraudulent activity; the impact of new business opportunities requiring significant up- front investments; the impact on capital spending from the deployment of new technologies; and the possibility that technologies will not perform according to expectations or that vendor performance will not meet requirements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which are valid as of the date of this document. Neither Phone.com nor AirTouch has an obligation to publicly release the results of any revisions to these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof. Further information regarding these and other risks are included in Phone.com's Form 10-Q for quarter ended September 30, 1999, in its prospectus dated November 16, 1999 and in its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
