Brience and Sprint Team to Extend Mobile Reach of Enterprise Applications.

Business Editors & Technology Writers

SAN FRANCISCO & KANSAS CITY, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 8, 2000

Sprint PCS Designates Brience as Custom Solutions Provider

of Wireless Enterprise Solutions for the

Sprint PCS Wireless Web for Business

Sprint PCS (NASDAQ:PCS) and Brience, Inc., a leading provider of next-generation wireless and broadband solutions, today announced that Sprint PCS has designated Brience as a custom solutions provider of wireless applications for the business enterprise. Via the Sprint PCS Wireless Web for Business, Brience's software solutions and implementation support will offer companies clear, wireless data communications -- to access existing applications and systems on Internet-ready Sprint PCS Phones -- without changing or adding to their current Web infrastructure.

"Sprint PCS' alliance with Brience as a Preferred Provider further strengthens our commitment to provide simple, streamlined mobile data solutions that are easily-implemented," said Charles Levine, chief sales and marketing officer of Sprint PCS. "In conjunction with a variety of leading data applications providers and systems integrators, Sprint PCS Wireless Web for Business will offer our corporate customers unprecedented seamless, nationwide wireless access to their mission-critical business information and services."

Brience's software solution, Ombrience Application Framework 2.0, will enable Sprint PCS business customers to wireless-enable their employees in a short timeframe with relative ease. Together, Brience and Sprint PCS will allow corporations to extend the power of enterprise applications and information to mobile employees, resulting in increased productivity. The partnership not only provides an attractive end-to-end solution for the enterprise, but also creates a mutually beneficial alliance for Brience and Sprint PCS. Sprint can provide a higher level of service to its customers and Brience can leverage the Sprint PCS customer base for new business opportunities.

"Sprint PCS is the nation's largest, all-digital, all-PCS nationwide wireless network and together we are one step closer to realizing our vision of creating a truly adaptive Web," said Rod McGeary co-founder and CEO of Brience. "With this partnership, Sprint PCS can give their business customers the necessary tools for creating a complete, wireless-enabled infrastructure. Customers will then have access to real-time business information whenever and wherever they are located."

Delivering the Adaptive Web

Last week, Brience announced the public beta availability of its Ombrience 2.0 Application Framework (see related release at www.brience.com/press/index.html). The Ombrience platform allows companies to immediately and seamlessly deliver enterprise information and applications over any connection to any wireless or broadband device without the need for custom programming or additional infrastructure. The platform includes the Experience Delivery Server 2.0, which recognizes specific devices and information pipes to deliver exactly the right form of data to optimize the end-user's Internet experience. It also includes an easy to use Developer Framework 2.0 for adding additional devices and an optional Edge Server 2.0, an application for enhancing service quality for premium users.

Sprint PCS' agreement with Brience marks the latest in a series of alliances with world-class data application partners to customize solutions that bring all of a company's business applications together seamlessly and wirelessly. In addition to customized solutions, Sprint PCS Wireless Web for Business will offer turn-key solutions to enable personal information management (such as e-mail, schedules, contacts), corporate directory services, corporate travel services and sales and service tools directly on Internet-ready Sprint PCS Phones. Currently in trials with a number of corporate customers, Sprint PCS expects to launch these services nationwide in 2000. Sprint PCS currently offers Wireless Web Connection, which enables a business customer to use an Internet-ready Sprint PCS Phone as a wireless modem when connected to a laptop, PDA or many other handheld computing devices to access the Internet or a corporate Intranet wirelessly.

About Sprint PCS

Sprint PCS operates the largest 100 percent digital, 100 percent PCS nationwide wireless network in the United States, already serving the majority of the nation's metropolitan areas including more than 4,000 cities and communities across the country. Sprint PCS has licensed PCS coverage of nearly 270 million people in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. For more information, visit the Sprint PCS Web site at http://www.sprintpcs.com. Sprint PCS is a wholly owned tracking group of Sprint Corporation trading on the NYSE under the symbol "PCS."

Sprint is a global communications company at the forefront of integrating long distance, local and wireless communications services, and a large carrier of Internet traffic. Sprint built and operates the United States' first nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network and is a leader in advanced data communications services. Sprint has $20 billion in annual revenues and serves more than 20 million residential and business customers.

About Brience

Brience provides the universal delivery platform for the Adaptive Web, offering enterprise solutions that let companies dynamically customize and deliver any information to any device. Brience solutions are based on open, global standards, allowing businesses to adapt their infrastructures to changing market conditions quickly and with minimal risk. Through its relationships with the leading visionaries of the Internet Infrastructure, Brience is helping to define the future of broadband and wireless communications in the enterprise. Additional information about Brience can be found at http://www.brience.com.

Note to Editors: Ombrience is a trademark of Brience, Inc. Other names, trademarks or registered trademarks are trademarks of their respective holders.