Musiwave Builds Momentum for Mobile Music Subscription Service

Musiwave Builds Momentum for Mobile Music Subscription Service

First Agreement Signed with Universal Music France

PARIS, March 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Musiwave, an Openwave company (Openwave Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:OPWV)) and a leading provider of mobile music entertainment services to operators and media companies worldwide, today announced its first agreement with a major music company, Universal Music France, to roll-out subscription-based mobile music services.

As announced at MIDEM 2006 in January, leading French operator SFR is the first operator to launch the subscription-based mobile music service. The SFR service currently offers access to 80,000 songs from the Universal Music catalogue.

Musiwave's subscription-based mobile music service is now available worldwide. The subscription-based mobile music service offers consumers easy, flexible access to their favorite music via an intuitive and personalized user interface through the operator's portal. Consumers can "delete and recharge" songs to their mobile anytime, anywhere.

"The advent of 3G on a broad scale, coupled with growing consumer demand for high-quality music services, are setting the stage for mass mobile content adoption in 2006," said Nicolas Pelletier, Vice President of Musiwave. "A subscription-based mobile music service powered by Musiwave allows operators to deliver a compelling music experience with an attractive pricing model for all parties."

Musiwave has aligned with Secure Digital Container AG (SDC) to deliver a complete Digital Rights Management (DRM) solution to ensure secure content protection within a subscription-based service model.

According to a Jupiter Research survey from March 2005, the flat rate subscription model is one of the top three features requested by consumers regarding digital music services.

Musiwave is currently in discussions with additional major music companies to offer a wide breadth of music choices with the Musiwave mobile music subscription service. Musiwave's mobile music platform currently powers 20 operators' full track music mobile services globally.

About Musiwave and Openwave

Musiwave, an Openwave company, is a leading provider of mobile music entertainment solutions, including software, marketing and content management, to operators and media companies worldwide. For more information, please visit www.musiwave.net.

Openwave Systems Inc. is the leading independent provider of open software solutions for the communications and media industry. Openwave software solutions are designed to enable customers to accelerate ARPU by rapidly launching value-added communication, information and entertainment services across networks and devices, and comprise a broad range of solutions including content delivery, messaging, music, video, and location. Openwave is a global company headquartered in Redwood City, California. For more information please visit www.openwave.com.

About SDC

SDC is a Swiss-based company with a global focus established in 1994 and is the leading DRM technology provider for mobile music services with customers like O2, SFR, T-Mobile and other customer with a deployment in Europe, North America and Asia/Pacific. It works alongside leading players in the DRM space to deliver the promise of mobile content distribution, including Sony BMG, Warner Music, EMI, Universal, AIM, Sun Microsystems, Siemens M2Y, MusiWave and Digital World Services AG. It is a member of the Open Mobile Alliance and MPEG 21.

SDC is a privately owned company headquartered in Basle, Switzerland. www.digicont.ch.

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

For more information please contact:

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

Source: Openwave Systems Inc.

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

Web site: http://www.digicont.ch/

Web site: http://www.musiwave.net/

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

-------
Profile: intent