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PHONE.COM TO ESTABLISH SPANISH OFFICE
Company Continues To Increase European Presence with planned New
Office in Spain
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (April 18, 2000) ¾ Phone.com, Inc. (Nasdaq:PHCM),
a leading provider of Internet software and services, today announced
it is to open a new Sales and Support business office in Madrid.
Phone.com(TM)'s plans for a local Spanish office demonstrate the
company's aggressive pursuit of new business opportunities in the
rapidly growing European WAP infrastructure and applications market,
particularly in Spain, and the broader international Spanish speaking
market. In an ongoing effort to increase its global presence,
Phone.com announced last month that it has opened a new office in
Paris, France.
The Phone.com Madrid office will be chartered to manage expanded
business growth, provide local support for existing Spanish customers
and to further Phone.com's market leadership position in Europe. The
company will offer technical support services in order to provide
local customer service and meet the needs of the rapidly expanding
Spanish wireless market, where mobile subscribers have increased by
60% in the past year alone. The Spanish office is expected to be open
for business by mid April.
"Our latest expansion in Europe with the opening of the Madrid office
demonstrates Phone.com's determination to facilitate the global
advancement of mobile Internet access. Providing exceptional localized
customer support and technical service confirms our commitment to help
network operators deliver the best new services with the greatest
benefit to their subscribers," said Mike Mulica, senior vice
president, worldwide sales, consulting and support at Phone.com.
About Phone.com
Phone.com, Inc. (Nasdaq:PHCM) is a leading provider of software,
applications, and services that enable the delivery of Internet-based
information and voice services to mass-market wireless telephones.
Using its software, wireless subscribers have access to Internet- and
corporate intranet-based services, including Email, news, stocks,
weather, travel and sports. In addition, subscribers have access via
their wireless telephones to network operators' intranet-based
telephony services, which may include over-the-air activation, call
management, billing history information, pricing plan subscription and
voice message management. Phone.com is headquartered in Silicon
Valley, California and has regional offices in Belfast, Copenhagen,
London, Seoul, and Tokyo. Visit http://www.phone.com for more
information.
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters
discussed in this news release are forward-looking statements
involving risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements.
Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to,
Phone.com's limited operating history, potential fluctuations in
Phone.com's operating results, uncertainties related to Phone.com's
long sales cycle and reliance on a small number of customers,
Phone.com's dependence on the acceptance of its products by network
operators and wireless subscribers, Phone.com's ability to adequately
address the rapidly-evolving market for delivery of Internet-based
services through wireless telephones, the need to achieve widespread
integration of Phone.com's browser in wireless telephones, competition
from companies with substantially greater financial, technical,
marketing and distribution resources and the ability of Phone.com to
manage a complex set of engineering, marketing and distribution
relationships. Further information regarding these and other risks are
included in Phone.com's Form 10-Q for quarter ended December 31, 1999,
in its prospectus dated November 16, 1999 and in its other filings
with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Phone.com, Inc.
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94063 USA
+1 650 562 0200 TEL
+1 650 817 1499 FAX
IN EUROPE
Phone.com (Europe) Limited
Maple House, High Street
Potters Bar Hertfordshire
EN6 5BS United Kingdom
+44 (0)1707 828 051 TEL
+44 (0)1707 828 080 FAX
IN JAPAN
Phone.com Japan K.K.
29F Shinjuku Square Tower Bldg.
6-22-1, Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku
Tokyo 163-1129
JAPAN
+81 3 5325 9211 Tel
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