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BREW News - June 2002 One Million Milestone for BREW

With wireless service providers KTF in Korea, KDDI in Japan and Verizon Wireless in the United States leading the charge, customer adoption of BREW services is gathering steam. In only six months, more than one million customers around the world have purchased and activated BREW-enabled handsets. And, the subscribers keep on coming.

Verizon Wireless just unveiled its nationwide launch of BREW services - bringing BREW to many more millions of customers. U.S. carrier, ALLTEL, announced its intentions to offer BREW-enabled services by the third quarter of this year. Telesp Celular is conducting a commercial BREW trial in Brazil right now, and additional carriers are waiting in the wings to deploy commercial BREW services.

Our first one million BREW customers milestone is just the beginning. You can sign up to create quality applications that will grow an even greater subscriber base, while growing your own bankroll. So what are you waiting for? Take advantage of the resources provided to the ever-growing BREW community. For more information on the resources available to you visit, http://brew.qualcomm.com/brew/en/developer/support/developer_support.html.

Opportunity Knocks - Verizon Wireless Launches BREW Services Nationwide

Verizon Wireless gave developers at the BREW 2002 Developers Conference a sneak peek into the future - announcing that Verizon Wireless would roll out BREW services to its customers nationwide by the end of June.

Sure enough, on June 17, Verizon Wireless became the first U.S. carrier to allow its customers to shop and download a variety of gaming, entertainment and productivity applications, developed by you, via the BREW platform.

Bolstered by success in its initial San Diego market launch, Verizon Wireless is looking forward to an explosion of customers and applications for BREW services nationwide.

"In late March of this year, we launched our first commercial market here in San Diego and every indicator is running extremely positive. We're seeing breadth and depth in our results in San Diego that we absolutely believe is translatable to every other market in the United States," said John Stratton, vice president and chief marketing officer for Verizon Wireless, during his general session address at BREW 2002. He noted in his presentation that handset sales were 70 percent above projections and applications sales were four times higher than expected.

With nationwide reach, the company expects to sell more than one million BREW-enabled devices by the end of this year.

Verizon Wireless is continuing to push forward in its plans to expand its BREW-enabled offerings, announcing the company's handset roadmap for the coming year. In the third quarter of this year, Verizon Wireless plans to add the LG VX-10, Toshiba 9500 and the Motorola 720 to its BREW-enabled lineup. The 720 represents the first color handset from Motorola, which will be BREW-enabled and available exclusively from Verizon Wireless.

Joining the Ranks

We welcome two new companies to our ranks of carriers that are deploying BREW services.

Soon, ALLTEL customers will be able to select and download BREW-enabled applications from numerous categories, including games and entertainment, business applications and navigation services. U.S.-based ALLTEL plans to introduce BREW-enabled services by the third quarter of 2002.

Telesp Celular, the largest mobile phone operator in Brazil, is currently conducting a user trial of BREW service. Telesp Celular's BREW services will take advantage of its next-generation, high-speed data network, which supports voice and data transfers at speeds up to 144 kbps. The company is testing the network with video streaming applications created by GenerationPIX, Inc.

Other downloadable applications available to Telesp Celular's trial users will include games from NuvoStudios and JAMDAT Mobile, wireless messaging services enabled by Comverse and MessageVine, and productivity applications from Rocket Mobile.

Get your applications ready for upcoming carrier trials and launches. For more information on preparing your applications for distribution, visit http://brew.qualcomm.com/brew/en/developer/commercialization/commercialization.html.

Qualcomm Hosts Successful BREW 2002 Developers Conference

More than 1,300 wireless industry professionals from 17 countries attended the BREW 2002 Developers Conference June 3-5 in San Diego. The annual conference provided insight into Qualcomm's future plans for its BREW solutions and affirmed BREW's position as the only complete solution for every aspect of wireless data.

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