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  OPENWAVE MOBILE BROWSER FEATURED ON NEW WIRELESS HANDSETS FROM KYOCERA WIRELESS CORP.
  

  CTIA and REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - March 17, 2003 -- Openwave Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: OPWV), the leading independent provider of open software products and services for the mobile communications industry, today announced that Openwave® Mobile Browser has been selected as the browser of choice for upcoming wireless phones from Kyocera Wireless Corp. Kyocera Wireless Corp. is the leading manufacturer of CDMA handsets in North America and among the leaders worldwide.

Implemented by 45 manufacturers in the wireless market worldwide and shipped in over 350 million handsets to-date, Openwave Mobile Browser allows carriers to easily enable their end users to discover and enjoy mobile services with games, ringtones, graphics and other types of rich content. Users and content developers recognize Openwave client software for color phones for its superior, easy-to-view implementation of XHTML Mobile Profile, which unlike its competition supports commonly used standard markup language features such as in-line forms and background images.

"We chose Openwave Mobile Browser based on a combination of our experience and familiarity with Openwave along with the fact that Openwave's browser is widely accepted by our carrier partners," said Don McGuire, vice president of global marketing at Kyocera Wireless Corp. "Openwave has always delivered reliable, quality browser software, a feature becoming ever more important in developing compelling phones for our customers."

"Our successful track record of delivering sophisticated and cost-effective browser software for CDMA networks was recognized and rewarded by Kyocera Wireless with this agreement," said Thomas Reardon, co-CTO, Openwave Systems." We are pleased to renew our relationship with Kyocera, one of the highest-volume manufacturers of phones for CDMA markets."

About Openwave Mobile Browser
Openwave Mobile Browser brings new capabilities to users, including:
  • Support for animated GIF and color support for all popular image formats, adding to existing capabilities for displaying monochrome GIF and other popular image formats
  • Autofill, a feature exclusive to Openwave Mobile Browser that remembers and automatically enters URLs, names, addresses-anything that a user previously typed
  • A "save" feature allowing users to save and organize images and sounds from the web pages they browse, so that content can be used to personalize their phone
  • A "snapshot" feature allowing users to save web pages for later off-line viewing
  • Support for cookies and an authentication "wallet", making it easier for sites to recognize return customers and enable secure, one-click shopping
Openwave Mobile Browser is based on open standard technologies and supports the WAP 2.0 specification. The browser also supports XHTML Mobile Profile and Wireless Cascading Style Sheets (WCSS) to provide significant benefits for developers by allowing them to use the same content creation tools and utilities they use today for the PC-based web. Enhanced graphical user interface (GUI) features make it easier for application developers to adapt PC-based interfaces to mobile devices. In addition, the enhanced GUI features make Web applications more intuitive to subscribers. Openwave Mobile Browser is available globally and can be used on all carrier networks that utilize industry standards for mobile data. More than 45 manufacturers around the world have shipped Openwave Mobile Browser, totaling over 350 million units shipped to-date.

About Openwave
 
Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV) is the leading independent provider of open software products and services for the mobile communications industry. 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 realize our strategic objectives by taking advantage of market opportunities in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia; (b) 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; (c) 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; (d) the effects of our restructurings and the ability to successfully support our operations; (e) the potential negative reaction by our customers to our reduced size and market capitalization; (f) the ability to recruit and retain qualified, experienced employees; (g) the willingness of communication service providers to invest and improve their data networks; (h) the ability to successfully partner with other companies; (i) the ability to acquire additional companies and technologies and integrate such acquisitions; (j) increased global competition; (k) technological changes and developments; (l) general risks of the Internet and wireless and wireline telecommunications sectors; and (m) the uncertain economic and political climate in the United States and throughout the rest of the world and the potential that such climate may deteriorate further.

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 Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2002 and 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 http://www.openwave.com/. The Company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements included in this document.

 
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