Telefonica España Selects Openwave Integra

Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV), a global software innovator delivering context-aware mediation and messaging solutions, today announced that Telefónica España, a leading European mobile operator, has selected Openwave Integra, a next generation traffic mediation and policy management solution designed to allow Telefónica to effectively manage, monitor and monetize mobile traffic. Telefónica is upgrading to Integra from Openwave’s Mobile Access Gateway (MAG) to accommodate mobile data traffic that has increased by nearly 80 percent since calendar year 2009.

"The ability to meet the mobile data needs of our subscribers is of the highest importance to us and a must for us to remain competitive,” said Cristina Alvarez, General Manager Value Added Services, Telefónica España. "Openwave has provided us with a smooth migration path to Integra’s next generation service mediation and policy management solution that we expect will help us provide subscribers with consistent mobile internet access as the demand for mobile data continues to grow.”

"We believe Telefónica’s sharp uptake in mobile data service usage underscores a growing phenomenon worldwide, and is driving the need for more advanced service mediation solutions that enable customized service plans,” said Alan Park, senior vice president of Worldwide Sales, Openwave. "We believe Telefónica’s upgrade to Integra will help them to manage traffic growth and to ultimately offer their subscribers the latest in innovative, leading-edge data services. We are pleased to be able to continue servicing Telefónica with this significant upgrade and look forward to providing superior products that can help them to monitor, manage and monetize the mobile internet.”

Openwave Integra

Openwave Integra orchestrates and mediates a set of mobile internet services that are driven by a rich policy-rules engine, allowing each transaction to be processed based on factors including user profile, device capabilities, content and network type. As traffic increases, Integra can rapidly scale to deploy new mobile data services across converging access networks and devices. Openwave Integra provides network operators an evolutionary roadmap with innovative services and benefits focused on:

• Reduction of TCO through a single point of policy control and management for mobile data services
• Scaling capabilities to support 3G and 4G service deployments
• Cost efficient evolutionary roadmaps from existing WAP gateways to next-generation data architecture
• Seamless backward compatibility with WAP infrastructure; and
• Supporting highly differentiated services across a number of service protocols (HTTP, HTML, RTSP/RTP/RDT).

About Telefónica

Telefónica is one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies by market capitalization. Its activities are focused mainly on fixed and mobile telephony businesses, while its broadband business is the key growth driver underpinning both. The company operates in 25 countries and its customer base exceeds 273 million globally. Telefónica’s growth strategy is focused on the markets in which it has a strong foothold: Spain, Europe and Latin America.

Telefónica is a 100 percent private company and has more than 1.5 million direct shareholders. The company’s capital is traded on the continuous market on the Spanish Stock Exchanges (Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao and Valencia) and in London, Tokyo, New York, Lima, Buenos Aires and São Paulo.

About Openwave Systems

Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV) is a global software innovator delivering context-aware mediation and messaging solutions that enable communication service providers and the broader ecosystem to create and deliver smarter services.

Building on its mobile data heritage, Openwave mobilizes the Internet with predictive solutions fueled by real-time analytics that mediate among all different ecosystem elements, permitting the enhancement of every mode of IP traffic. The result can provide customers with a 360-degree view of their network, devices and services, and enables them to proactively optimize network resources, quickly launch smart mobile services, and provide a contextually relevant user experience.

Openwave is a global company with a blue chip customer base spanning North America, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Openwave is headquartered in Redwood City, California. For more information please visit www.openwave.com.

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