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  VODAFONE SELECTS INTEGRATED LOCATION SOLUTION FROM OPENWAVE SYSTEMS AND NEC
  

  REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - December 5, 2005 -- Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV), the leading provider of open software products and services for the communications industry, today announced that NEC Corp. is integrating Openwave® Location Manager into NEC's Network Assisted Location Information Solutions. Vodafone K.K. in Japan is the first customer to select the combined solution.

Openwave and NEC's location solution is in compliance with the pre-standard Secure User Plane Location (SUPL) standard currently under consideration by the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA). The solution integrates Openwave Location Manager's Gateway Mobile Location Center (GMLC) with NEC's SUPL positioning server to provide a high-accuracy, Assisted GPS (A-GPS) offering that enables location-based services for both the consumer and enterprise markets. The combined solution also incorporates an access management feature to protect subscriber privacy at both the mobile handset and application levels.

"We are committed to working with our customers to deliver intuitive and secure mobile location experiences for consumers. Our established leadership in User Plane location products, coupled with our advanced location middleware, allows us to offer a high accuracy location solution for mobile operators like Vodafone K.K.," said Rich Wong, senior vice president, product and solutions group, Openwave. "Vodafone K.K.'s adoption of our solution, which came to fruition through our collaboration with NEC, is a strong validation of Openwave's continued leadership in the location-based services market."

Openwave's Location Solutions
Openwave is a leading provider of high accuracy, end-to-end location solutions for both emergency and commercial location services. Openwave's location offerings power successful emergency and commercial services through market-leading deployments of Gateway Mobile Location Center (GMLC) and Mobile Positioning Center (MPC) infrastructure to mobile operators around the world.

NEC's Network-Assisted Location Information Solutions
NEC's Network-Assisted Location Information Solutions make it possible to precisely calculate a user's current position by combining GPS location data and mobile base-station data. The completeness of NEC's location-information systems, with their support for international roaming and other similarly advanced services, are acclaimed by mobile communications service vendors throughout the world.

Openwave's messaging, location, browsing and content services span all networks and devices. Today, Openwave software is used by more than 100 mobile operators, broadband providers and Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) to enable access to data services for more than 500 million consumers around the world.

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 or japan.openwave.com (Japanese Web site).

 
Openwave and the Openwave logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Openwave Systems Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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