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  MEDITELECOM DEPLOYS OPENWAVE TECHNOLOGY TO POWER ITS MOBILE MULTIMEDIA SERVICES
  

  Morocco's Leading Mobile Operator Launches Openwave MAG And MMSC to Help Operators Unlock New Data Revenue Streams and Perfect the User Experience
 
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - October 20, 2004 -- Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV), the leading provider of open software products and services for the communications industry, today announced that one of Morocco's leading mobile operators, Meditelecom, has launched the Openwave® Mobile Access Gateway (MAG) Version 6 and Openwave Multimedia Messaging Services Centre (MMSC) as the foundation for the launch of its multimedia messaging services.

Meditelecom chose to upgrade its network to enable MMS and other innovative services in Morocco, and will benefit from the outset from Openwave's commitment to deliver the best possible experience of mobile data services on new and legacy handsets to all end users through its messaging infrastructure products. This most recent announcement demonstrates the ongoing momentum as operators evolve their IP messaging to the best and most flexible service offering for their customers.

Openwave MAG 6 is the most established, interoperable and standards compliant gateway on the market, providing a complete and integrated solution for WAP 1 and WAP 2 capabilities. 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.

Openwave MMSC leverages the strengths of MAG 6 and allows users to send, receive and remotely store messages that contain text, music, graphics and video in an intimate, tailored and intuitive way. In addition, it includes best-in-industry email interoperability, the widest range of MMS and legacy handset support, and a rich set of pre-built applications - including an image gallery and photo albums.

Openwave MAG 6 and MMSC will enable Meditelecom to offer its end-users new product offerings and business models including a customized delivery solution for application to person (A2P) WAP Push and Multimedia messages. This capability allows carriers to push personalized WAP and MMS content to its end-users around major events while also creating awareness of data services and stimulating usage.

"Meditelecom has grasped mobile telephony with both hands, and adding attractive multimedia services to our offering will enable us to grow our market share even further," said Miguel Menchen, CEO of Meditelecom. "Openwave's commitment to working with operators to develop their offerings and its unrivalled heritage in underpinning new mobile data applications and services made its MAG and MMSC obvious choices as the foundation for our services."

Bryan Visser, general manager of Openwave Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), commented: "With new handsets supporting MMS applications and downloads becoming increasingly available across the world, operators that can quickly configure their networks to take these advanced data services to previously untapped markets will increase customer loyalty and open up new revenue opportunities. By investing in Openwave MAG 6 and MMSC, Meditelecom can offer leading data and messaging services that deliver a high quality end user experience and reap the rewards that offering such a service can bring."

Openwave is a leader in the mobile messaging infrastructure segment with over 70 MAG deployments to date. More than 30 operators have selected Openwave multimedia messaging software globally, over an addressable subscriber base of 150 million end-users.

About Meditelcom
 
Meditelcom is the First private telecom operator. It's an association between Telefonica, Portugal Telecom and big Moroccan companies. It started its operations in March, 2000. Meditelcom has a portfolio of more than 2,5 millions customers.

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.

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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 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; (b) 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; (c) the ability to successfully partner with other companies; (d) increased global competition; (e) technological changes and developments; and (f) 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 Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 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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