Musiwave Powers TELUS Mobile Music Full Track Download Service Storefront

Musiwave Powers TELUS Mobile Music Full Track Download Service Storefront

Musiwave Expands Global Reach With First North American Customer

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 15 /PRNewswire/ -- 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 the launch of its first North American customer, TELUS, a leading Canadian telecommunications company, to deploy Musiwave's full-track music download service for its mobile phone subscribers.

"Our goal is to offer a uniquely personalized entertainment experience to our clients across Canada and deliver services that are both compelling and easy-to-use," said Robert Blumenthal, TELUS' Senior Vice President of Products and Services. "With TELUS mobile music, our subscribers can now benefit from a highly innovative new service -- making full length music downloads accessible from their mobile phone or desktop computer."

"The handset is evolving into an extension of a subscriber's personality, and the ability to program it with personalized music and entertainment brings the user experience to a whole new level," said Nicolas Pelletier, Vice President of Musiwave. "Musiwave has long been a key player in the European and Asian mobile music markets; with TELUS, we are entering the North American market with strong proof of our capabilities. Coupled with their new high speed network, TELUS is poised to deliver an optimal music and entertainment experience for their customers."

Musiwave's full track download service is delivered with Secure Digital Container AG (SDC) which delivers a complete DRM server and music client solution for CDMA and GSM carriers and Digital World Services (DWS) which provides the DRM content delivery platform ADORA. 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 is a 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.

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-Online, T-Mobile, Telstra and Vodafone D2. It works alongside leading players in the DRM space to deliver the promise of mobile content distribution, including SonyBMG, Warner Music, EMI, Universal, AIM, Sun Microsystems, Siemens Mobile, Musiwave and Digital World Services AG. It is a member of the Open Mobile Alliance.

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

About DWS

DWS develops unique DRM based content delivery technology to facilitate secure media content distribution with highest scalability across the media distribution chain. DWS provides the ADORA Content Delivery Platform and the DWS Future Download Shop and a range of professional services. ADORA, the core product of DWS is a multi-DRM platform, which has integrated SDC DRM, MSFT DRM and ADOBE DRM for music, video and document delivery to multiple channels such as mobile, online and cable networks. DWS ADORA was the first platform, which handles DUAL-delivery of music tracks similarly to mobile devices and PC in 2004 and is approved by all major record labels as a trusted clearinghouse platform.

DWS is European market leader for music download technology with its customers T-Online, T-Mobile, AOL, O2, SFR, Telstra and others on 3 continents. The company was founded 1999 by media giant Bertelsmann in New York and was purchased in an asset deal transaction from a group of investors around Rolf Brugger and Michael Bornhausser 2003 and transferred to Basle, Switzerland. The company is privately owned. More information can be found at www.dwsco.com.

NOTE: Openwave and the Openwave logo are trademarks of Openwave Systems Inc. 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

Openwave (Europe) Ltd.
Sally Bate
Public Relations
sally.bate@openwave.com
Tel: +44 (0)1442 458811

Source: Openwave Systems Inc.

CONTACT: Vikki Herrera of Openwave Systems Inc., +1-650-480-6753, or
Vikki.herrera@openwave.com; or Sally Bate of Openwave (Europe) Ltd.,
+44-0-1442-458811, or sally.bate@openwave.com

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

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

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

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

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