Tuesday May 23, 9:02 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: Phone.com, Inc.
Iusacell Licenses Phone.com UP.Link to Provide Wireless
Internet Services In Mexico
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Phone.com, Inc.
(Nasdaq: PHCM - news), a leading provider of software and
applications that enable the delivery of Internet-based
information services to mass-market wireless telephones,
today announced that Grupo Iusacell, S.A. de C.V., a
leading wireless telecommunications services provider in
Mexico, has licensed the Phone.com(TM) Wireless Application
Protocol (WAP)-compatible UP.Link(TM) Server Suite. Under the
terms of the agreement, Iusacell is using Phone.com's UP.Link
Server to provide wireless Internet access to its CDMA
digital subscribers.
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Initially, the wireless Internet service from Iusacell is
accessible using Motorola's Startac 7860 Internet-enabled
phones, which utilize the embedded Phone.com(TM)
UP.Browser(TM) microbrowser. These phones operate on
Iusacell's CDMA network.
By using the Phone.com UP.Link and UP.Browser, Iusacell's
subscribers have access to a broad range of wireless
services, including Internet access, mobile email, and Info-
on-Demand services -- including financial news and weather,
as well as Personal Information Management services such as
personal organizer, and calendar functions. Iusacell is
providing localized content through Alo.com, a Mexican
Internet provider.
``We're excited to use the UP.Link server and Internet-
enabled phones to provide leading edge wireless Internet
services to our subscribers,'' said Fulvio V. del Valle,
President & Director General of Iusacell. ``We see this as
just the beginning of many new, advanced services to be
offered to our subscribers.''
``As the demand and popularity for wireless Internet access
grows, Phone.com is poised and committed to help network
operators such as Iusacell deliver new services with the most
benefit to their subscribers,'' said Chuck Parrish, Executive
Vice President for Phone.com. ``Iusacell's growth combined
with Phone.com's innovative and mature products will quickly
provide wireless subscribers with state-of-the-art
capabilities.''
About Iusacell
Grupo Iusacell, S.A. de C.V. (NYSE: CEL; BMV), is a leading
independent telecommunications company in Mexico. It provides
wireless cellular service in four of Mexico's nine regions in
the central portion of Mexico (including Mexico City)
covering a total of 68 million POPs, representing
approximately 69% of the country's total population. Iusacell
is under the management and operating control of subsidiaries
of Bell Atlantic Corporation (NYSE: BEL - news).
About Phone.com
Phone.com, Inc. is a leading provider of software,
applications, and services that enable the delivery of
Internet-based information and voice 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, 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 Rights Reserved. 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.
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