Openwave Showcases Services That Power Mobility at 3GSM World Congress

Openwave Showcases Services That Power Mobility at 3GSM World Congress

Openwave Highlights Latest Communication, Information and Entertainment Services for Worldwide Communications Market

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Openwave Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:OPWV), the leading provider of open software products and services for the communications industry, today announced that the Company will showcase a wide range of next-generation communication, information and entertainment services at the 3GSM World Congress 2006 (stand B18, Hall 8) in Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 13-17.

"The industry is at a unique inflection point; technology has finally matured to the point of enabling convergence across networks and devices. Further, as new players rapidly enter the market to meet consumer demand for advanced content and services, the market has never been more exciting," said Richard Wong, senior vice president, product and solutions group, Openwave. "Openwave is in the unique position of providing solutions and services on both the handset and an operator's network, working with our partners across the communications and media landscape and helping them address how to build real value for their customers."

Wong will be speaking on a panel at the conference, entitled, "What are the Technology Integration Barriers & Solutions to a Cost-Effective, High Quality Handsets Supply Chain?" on Tuesday, February 14 at 17.15 - 18.25 within the Technology Symposium.

In addition, Musiwave, an Openwave company and a leading provider of mobile music entertainment services to operators and media companies worldwide, has also been shortlisted for the "Best Made for Mobile Music Service" GSM Association Award, which will be announced during the conference.

New Openwave services and solutions, as well as key partner offerings, will be available for demonstration in the Openwave booth (stand B18, Hall 8), including:

-- Adaptive messaging services, including cross-platform voicemail
services and a network-based address book
-- Live feeds of news, entertainment and sports headlines to the handset
-- The latest location-based services such as points of interest mapping
and "meet-me" applications
-- An intuitive portal that provides personalized content based on user
behavior
-- New content management technologies that enable rich web pages to be
rendered more effectively on mainstream mobile devices, and provide a
secure environment for users both on and off portal
-- Mobile music services from recently acquired Musiwave, including Smart
Radio, which allows consumers to access customized mobile streaming
music programming; a new music player which features a full track
mobile music subscription service; Music on Demand Service (MODS(TM))
which allows fast, full-length secure downloads of music directly to 3G
mobile devices; and Music Wizard(TM), which enables users to identify a
song in just a few seconds using their mobile phone. Although all four
services are commercially available from Musiwave, Smart Radio is also
available pre-integrated with Openwave(R) Mobile Integrated Dynamic
Application System (MIDAS).

About Openwave

Openwave Systems Inc. is the leading independent provider of open software products and services for the communications industry. Openwave's breadth of products, including mobile phone software, multimedia messaging software (MMS), email, location and mobile gateways, along with its worldwide expertise enable its customers to deliver innovative and differentiated data services. Openwave is a global company headquartered in Redwood City, California. For more information please visit www.openwave.com.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward Looking Statements

This release contains forward-looking statements relating to expectations, plans or prospects for Openwave Systems Inc. that are based upon the current expectations and beliefs of Openwave's management and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. In particular, the following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements: (a) the ability to make changes in business strategy, development plans and product offerings to respond to the needs of our current, new and potential customers, suppliers and strategic partners; (b) risks associated with the development and licensing of software generally, including potential delays in software development and technical difficulties that may be encountered in the development or use of our software; (c) the ability to successfully partner with other companies; (d) the ability to successfully manage and integrate Musiwave's operations and employees, to successfully retain Musiwave's existing customers, and to continue to grow the Musiwave customer base and revenue in accordance with projections, and (e) technological changes and developments.

For a detailed discussion of these and other cautionary statements, please refer to the risk factors discussed in filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including but not limited to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2005, and any subsequently filed reports. All documents also are available through the SEC's Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval system (EDGAR) at www.sec.gov or from Openwave's Web site at www.openwave.com.

NOTE: Openwave, the Openwave logo, Musiwave, the Musiwave logo, MODS and Music Wizard are trademarks of Openwave Systems Inc. or its subsidiaries. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

CONTACT:
Openwave Systems Inc.
Vikki Herrera
Public Relations
Vikki.Herrera@openwave.com
+1-650-480-6753

Openwave (Europe) Ltd.
Sally Bate
Public Relations
sally.bate@openwave.com
+44-0-1442-45881

Source: Openwave Systems Inc.

CONTACT: media, Vikki Herrera of Openwave Systems Inc., +1-650-480-6753,
or Vikki.Herrera@openwave.com; or Sally Bate of Openwave (Europe) Ltd.,
+44-0-1442-45881, or sally.bate@openwave.com

Web site: http://www.openwave.com/

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