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  VODAFONE SPAIN TO DEPLOY OPENWAVE MOBILE ACCESS GATEWAY 6 FOR ITS VODAFONE LIVE! SERVICES
 

  REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - March 22, 2004 -- Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV), the leading provider of open software products and services for the communications industry, today announced that Vodafone Spain will adopt the Openwave® Mobile Access Gateway (MAG) Version 6 for its industry-leading Vodafone live! service. Openwave MAG 6 reflects Openwave's commitment to increasing data usage and carrier revenue by refining the end-user experience of mobile data, and will enable Vodafone to further increase usage of its current services using the latest mobile handsets.

Vodafone Spain has chosen to upgrade its network to use Openwave MAG 6 due to the interoperable and standards compliant gateway, which provides a complete and integrated solution for WAP 1 and WAP 2 capabilities. The capabilities that WAP 2 brings to the industry are personified in Vodafone live! - Vodafone's industry-leading multimedia service that currently has over 376,000 customers in Spain and 4.5 million active customers worldwide.

The arrival of WAP 2 has contributed to a rise in daily WAP impressions from 12 million in November 2002 to 31 million in November 2003, an increase of over 250 percent, according to the Mobile Data Association. However, the movement from WAP 1 to WAP 2 coupled with the emergence of 3G has placed new demands on operators. To successfully manage these demands, operators need a new breed of mobile data infrastructure, which provides not only a core set of gateway capabilities, but also a modular architecture that can be easily extended to support new and upcoming mobile data business models. Openwave is a leader in this segment with over 70 MAG deployments to date, and MAG 6 has extensible architecture that enables carriers like Vodafone Spain to benefit from premium billing, flexible subscriber services management, identity & profile management and content filtering. It also supports the latest WAP services and applications.

"With new WAP 2 handsets entering the market with support for services like XHTML browsing, photo messaging and downloads, it is important for operators to quickly add support for these new phones and make the most of their capabilities," said Alan Black, managing director of EMEA at Openwave. "As the most proven, interoperable WAP gateway on the market, Openwave MAG 6 makes this transition straightforward and will assist Vodafone Spain in the growth of its mobile data offering by rolling out new applications and services to customers on the very latest handsets."

Offering unparalleled interoperability with handsets, services and applications, Openwave MAG 6 goes beyond the capabilities of competitive WAP gateways. Increasing the addressable market for operators by delivering the optimum page quality for each visiting browser, MAG 6 allows the operator to manage subscriber identity and enforce business policy on a network level by dividing subscribers into different groups and applying access control, billing and routing.

About Openwave
 
Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV) 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.

About Vodafone Spain
 
Vodafone Spain is part of Vodafone Group Plc, the world's leading mobile communications company with a presence in 26 countries and Partner Networks in a further 13 countries, spanning 5 continents. Providing a full range of mobile telecommunications services, including voice and data communications, Vodafone currently serves more than 130 million proportionate customers worldwide. More than 9.5 million Vodafone customers in Spain benefit from the experience and capabilities of a World leading company helping individuals, businesses and communities to be more connected in a mobile world.

Vodafone is a truly global organisation, recognised worldwide for its quality of service and product innovation. Vodafone's global service offering, Vodafone live! opens up a world of mobile colour communication offering messages with photos and videos, as well as games, polyphonic ring tones, news, e-mail, chat and location-based services. Vodafone live! is available in 16 countries and currently has more than four and a half million active customers worldwide.

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 ability to successfully partner with other companies; and (e) general risks of the Internet and wireless and wireline telecommunications sectors.

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 December 31, 2003, 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. The Company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements included in this document.

 
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