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  Industry Leadership
  
 
  Openwave (Nasdaq: OPWV) is one of the world's leading innovators of software applications and infrastructure designed to enable revenue-generating, personalized services, including merchandising and advertising, which converge the mobile and broadband experience across devices.

  

  Deep Industry Expertise
 
As one of the early innovators in mobile data and messaging, Openwave introduced their first software products in 1994. Today, Openwave enables the delivery of innovative data services for leading operators worldwide.

Openwave software enables service providers to converge services, increasing the value of their networks by accelerating time to market and reducing the cost and complexity associated with new service deployment. Openwave's unique product portfolio provides a complete range of service management, messaging, location and client technologies.

A Global Customer Base
 
Openwave's worldwide expertise and deep industry experience make it a strategic partner in developing and deploying mobile and broadband services. Openwave is committed to working with its customers to deliver long-term, strategic business value.

Openwave's global customer base consists of 70+ mobile operators; 25+ broadband service providers and 50+ handset manufacturers. Mobile customers include: Bell Mobility, China Unicom, KDDI, Orange, Sprint, Taiwan Mobile, Telefónica Moviles, Telus, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Virgin Mobile, VIVO and Vodafone. Broadband service provider customers include: Comcast, Cox Communications, Deutsche Telecom, NTL, Telstra and Time Warner Cable. Handset manufacturer customers include: LG Telecom, Motorola, NEC, Sagem Communications, Samsung, Sharp, Siemens and Toshiba.

Strategic Partnerships
 
Openwave collaborates with companies including IBM and McAfee to expand its reach and capabilities, and to maintain its company-wide focus on increasing customer satisfaction and improving the user experience.

In addition to delivering tailored solutions directly to our customers, Openwave is focused on establishing channel partnerships with leading network infrastructure providers to bring our innovative, service-enabling technologies into emerging markets and to new customers.

Innovative Products & Services
 
Openwave's product portfolio consists of service management, messaging, location and client software product lines:
  • Advertising — Industry-leading advertising and personalization technologies help operators leverage their unique subscriber and network assets to quickly capture revenue through targeted advertising.

  • Service Management — Powering seamless access to personal multimedia services in a wired and wireless broadband world

  • Messaging — Converged, IP-based multimedia messaging (text, voice, video) applications and infrastructure to provide solutions that adapt to subscribers' preferences, capabilities and location

  • Client — Software embedded in mobile devices to enable the flexible presentation of content, and to support 'one click' access to mobile browsing, messaging and content services

  • Location — High accuracy, standards-based location infrastructure
Openwave's products are based on open standards and designed for convergence — they have the capability to work across a diverse range of mobile phones and technologies, regardless of the brand of handset or type of service that operators offer their subscribers.

Openwave Heritage
 
Openwave was formed in August 2000 when wireless Internet pioneer Phone.com merged with messaging software provider Software.com. This union signaled a larger trend taking shape in the industry — the convergence of broadband and mobile communications and the intersection of traditional telecommunications and the Internet.

History of Market-Leading Innovation:
  • 1st Mobile Browsing deployment in the world (AT&T, 1997)
  • 1st WAP 1 deployment in the world (TeliaSonera, 1999)
  • 1st WAP 2 deployment in the world (KDDI, 2001)
  • 1st Open Internet deployment in the world (KDDI, 2005)
  • Largest WAP2 system in the world today (32,000 tps)
  • 1st converged communications trials (O2, Telefonica)
  • 1st photo messaging system in world (J-Phone)
  • 1st fully integrated voice & video call answering system in the world
  • Founder, Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group
Today, Openwave enables the delivery of innovative data services for leading operators worldwide.

  



 
  • Over 1000 employees worldwide

  • 100,000+ developers use Openwave developer tools to create wireless applications for the Openwave browser

  • 70+ mobile customers

  • 12 of top 20 global mobile operators

  • 7 of the top 15 broadband ISPs in North America are Openwave customers

  • More than 1.4 billion handsets with Openwave software have been shipped.

  • Openwave messaging systems manage over 1.3 billion messages per day

  • Over 50 device manufacturers have licensed the Openwave Mobile Browser
 
 
 
 
 
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