OZ SECURES WIRELESS VILLAGE LEADERSHIP WITH MOST FULLY FEATURED SUITE OF COMPLIANT PRODUCTS

Product suite officially compliant with all services, bearers and content types, as well as both mandatory and optional requirements tested at second interoperability event

Montreal, Canada - October 7, 2002 - OZ Communications Inc., a leading provider of instant communication solutions to wireless operators, announced today that its suite of products has again been tested officially compliant to the Wireless Village 1.1 specifications based on test results from the second Wireless Village interoperability event held in Atlanta end of September. OZ products tested as compliant include the OZ ICS server, J2ME mobile client application and Windows PC client.

Building on OZ's success in the first interoperability event this summer, all of OZ's products passed tests for instant messaging, presence and group communication services with servers and client applications from other vendors. OZ's product suite passed tests for all bearers (SMS, HTTP, WSP) and all content formats (SMS, XML, BXML) tested at the event. OZ's products successfully completed tests for all mandatory requirements, as well as for several optional requirements of the Wireless Village 1.1 specifications that were tested at the event.

"These results clearly demonstrate the lead OZ has taken within the Wireless Village initiative," said Skuli Mogensen, CEO of OZ. "We have now proven our technical excellence at both of the Wireless Village interoperability events. With the most extensive suite of compliant products available, OZ is definitely well positioned in the market as mobile operators start evaluating Wireless Village solutions."

The OZ ICS Wireless Village compliant server, now available, enables wireless operators to capitalize on the growing need for mobile instant text messaging and presence services as demonstrated by the success of basic SMS messaging and wireline IM in the market

OZ furthermore offers a range of Wireless Village conformant client applications for mobile handsets, smartphones and PDAs. In addition to the officially compliant J2ME and Windows clients, these include Brew, C-based clients, Symbian, PocketPC and MS Smartphone, Palm, WAP, SIM Toolkit and 2-way SMS. OZ client applications can be embedded on mobile handsets by handset manufacturers or offered by mobile operators directly to end-users.

Wireless Village products and solutions will create interoperable end-user services for mobile instant messaging, presence, group communications, and content sharing. Wireless Village has recently become the Instant Messaging and Presence Services (IMPS) Working Group of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) of which OZ has recently become a member. OMA includes more than 200 companies representing the whole mobile services value chain, such as the world's leading mobile operators, device & network suppliers, information technology companies and content providers. OMA is stimulating and contributing to the creation of interoperable services across countries, operators and mobile terminals that will meet the needs of both the consumers and business users.

About the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)

The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) delivers open standards for the mobile industry, helping to create interoperable services, which work across countries, operators and mobile terminals and are driven by users' needs. To expand the mobile market, companies supporting the Open Mobile Alliance will work to stimulate the fast and wide adoption of a variety of new, enhanced mobile information, communication and entertainment services. The Open Mobile Alliance includes all key elements of the wireless value chain, and contributes to the timely and efficient introduction of services and applications. For more information, please visit www.openmobilealliance.org

About OZ

OZ Communications is the leading enabler of standardized mobile Instant Messaging and Presence Services. OZ works closely with the world's leading mobile operators, IM service providers, handset providers and standardization forums to provide people with the best possible mobile IMPS experience. OZ's standards based products include the OZ Mobile IM Gateway, a carrier-grade IM billing and protocol gateway, OZ's Mobile IM Client Software, including the most advanced J2ME IM client available, and OZ's IMPS server, the most robust and fully featured IM server based on the Open Mobile Alliance IMPS specifications. For more information please visit www.oz.com

For more information please contact:

Beverly Wilks
Director, Corporate Marketing & Communications
Tel: 1.514.390.2906
Mobile: 1.514.887.2252

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