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22nd April 2003

US : QUALCOMM Incorporated announce the official line-up of sponsors, speakers, exhibitors and entertainment for its third annual BREW Developers Conference in San Diego, April 28-30.

The conference provides a networking forum for attendees as well as opportunities to learn from general session, technical and business tracks dedicated to sharing knowledge and expert resources on QUALCOMM's Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless(TM) (BREW) platform. An estimated 1,200 attendees are expected at the event.

"We are extremely pleased by the successes of the BREW solution during the past year -- particularly about the fact that so many of our partners have enjoyed significant revenue from BREW-based applications and services," said Peggy Johnson, president, QUALCOMM Internet Services. "Many of the world's leading operators have adopted the BREW solution as the foundation for their wireless data offerings, proving the global validity of the BREW solution and demonstrating its contribution to fast and easy wireless data service deployments."

Dr. Paul E. Jacobs, president of QUALCOMM Wireless & Internet Group, will kick-off the conference on Tuesday morning, April 29. Keynote and general session speeches will follow, featuring QUALCOMM executives and wireless industry leaders. Dr. Irwin Mark Jacobs, chairman and CEO of QUALCOMM, will give the first keynote of the conference on Tuesday morning -- "3G Adoption, Evolution and the Impact of BREW." On Wednesday, April 30, Dr. James Canton with the Institute for Global Futures will deliver the morning keynote address -- "Real-Time: The Future of mBusiness and the Wireless Information Society."

Top executives from China Unicom, Vivo (the Telefonica Moviles -- Portugal Telecom joint venture in Brazil), KDDI of Japan, and ALLTEL and Verizon Wireless of the United States will discuss their data services strategies and how developers can work with them. Speakers from these wireless operators include Dr. William Weicong Li, general manager - marketing for China Unicom; Dr. Yasuhiko Ito, executive managing officer for the solution business sector of KDDI; Luis Avelar, vice president of information technologies and products and services engineering for Vivo; Philip Junker, executive vice president of marketing for ALLTEL; and Jim Straight, vice president of data and wireless Internet services for Verizon Wireless.

Showcasing BREW Applications
Throughout the conference, attendees will have the opportunity to see the latest BREW-enabled devices and applications. Companies participating in the BREW 2003 Developers Conference as sponsors or in the Partner Pavilion
include:

Platinum Sponsor
Verizon Wireless

Gold Sponsors
Motorola
U.S. Cellular

Silver Sponsors
ALLTEL
LG InfoComm USA
Sharp

Bronze Sponsors
Kyocera Wireless
Navigation Technologies
IBM

Welcome Reception Sponsors
Activision
ESPN

Netcafe Sponsor
ARM

Media Sponsors
RCR Wireless
Software Development Magazine
Wireless Business & Technology

BREW Engineering Support Lab Sponsor
DevX

Other Sponsors
Wireless Week
KDDI
NSTL

Exhibitor Sponsors
China Unicom
esmertec
Faith West
generationPix
JAMDAT Mobile
KTF
Logitech
Magus Soft
Mforma
NSTL
Rocket Mobile
Single Touch Interactive
Teleca
Tourmaline Networks
Vindigo
Vivo
Wiz Technologies
Xpherix

Honoring Excellence
This year's conference will reveal the winners of the second annual BREW Developer Awards, which celebrate the excellence, innovation and imagination of BREW application developers in six categories: Best Productivity Application, Best Entertainment Application, Best Game Application, Best Location-Based Service Application,

Best Communications Application and Best Extension/Technology Application. The awards will be presented by Dr. Paul E. Jacobs and Peggy Johnson on Tuesday morning during the General Session. BREWfest, an exclusive celebration for BREW 2003 attendees on Tuesday night, will feature entertainment from the Grammy(R) award-winning, funk and soul group Kool & the Gang.

Deployments of the BREW solution continue as operators throughout the world join Verizon Wireless and ALLTEL in the United States, KTF in South Korea, KDDI in Japan, China Unicom, Vivo in Brazil and Telstra in Australia, in commercializing BREW-based services. U.S. Cellular has also launched a BREW user trial. More than 40 BREW-enabled handset models have been offered to consumers worldwide and more than 40 device manufacturers have indicated their interest in the BREW platform.

QUALCOMM's BREW solution is a complete product and business system for the development and over-the-air deployment of data services on wireless devices. The BREW solution provides the necessary tools and value-added services to developers, device manufacturers and wireless operators for application development and distribution, device configuration, and billing and payment.