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SPRINT AND KALADOR DELIVER MOBILE ENTERTAINMENT TO THE SPRINT PCS WIRELESS WEB
Sprint (NYSE: FON, PCS), which operates the largest all-digital, all-PCS nationwide network and is the fastest-growing wireless carrier, and Kalador Entertainment Inc., a leading wireless entertainment company, today announced the launch of Outlast! and Mini-Mysteries on the Sprint PCS Wireless Web.
Kansas City, Mo., and Vancouver, B.C., November 19, 2001 -- Sprint (NYSE: FON, PCS), which operates the largest all-digital, all-PCS nationwide network and is the fastest-growing wireless carrier, and Kalador Entertainment Inc., a leading wireless entertainment company, today announced the launch of Outlast! and Mini-Mysteries on the Sprint PCS Wireless Web.
In Outlast!, up to 15 players enter a virtual world where other players are both allies and enemies. Each day players vie for the right to continue playing as participants are eliminated one by one until the final winner is determined. Sprint PCS subscribers will be the first to receive this exciting new game.
"The same type of social interaction combined with raw competition that keeps us watching these types of 'games' on television is what will attract and keep players logging on to Kalador's Outlast!" said Chip Novick, vice president of consumer marketing for Sprint PCS. "Sprint PCS is clearly setting the pace for wireless gaming. With the launch of the Kalador games, Sprint PCS offers more than 70 wireless games that keep our customers connecting to Wireless Web entertainment."
We are delighted to be delivering our original Kalador mobile phone games and entertainment services to the Sprint PCS Wireless Web," said Richard Mosher, President and CEO of Kalador Entertainment.
Kalador Entertainment Inc. brings interactive, multiplayer, networked games and entertainment content to mobile phones. Combining the power of the Internet with mobile telephony and entertainment software, Kalador provides a turnkey wireless games and entertainment solution to its customers, including mobile operators and game portals. Kaladors carrier-class game server and wide portfolio of games and entertainment content delivers true Play AnywhereTM service.
Kaladors game server technology provides full support for todays emerging mobile technologies, such as Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), while simultaneously allowing for migration to the technologies of the future, such as 3G and Java-enabled phones.
About Sprint
Sprint is a global communications company serving 23 million business and residential customers in more than 70 countries. With more than 80,000 employees worldwide and $23 billion in annual revenues, Sprint is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying state of the art network technologies, including the United States first nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network. Sprint's award-winning Tier 1 Internet backbone is being extended to key global markets to provide customers with a broad portfolio of scalable IP products. Sprint's high-capacity, high-speed network gives customers fast, dependable, non-stop access to the vast majority of the world's Internet content. Sprint also operates the largest 100-percent digital, nationwide PCS wireless network in the United States, already serving the majority of the nations metropolitan areas including more than 4,000 cities and communities.
For more information, visit the Sprint PCS web site at http://www.sprintpcs.com.
About Kalador Entertainment
Kalador Entertainment Inc. (www.kalador.com) brings interactive games and entertainment to Internet-enabled mobile phones and wireless devices. The company has the experience, resources, and people to bring together wireless technology, the Internet, and electronic entertainment. Kalador Entertainment Inc. is committed to working with industry partners to become the world leader in the provision of mobile games and entertainment. Global market analysis experts, Datamonitor (www.datamonitor.com), project the world market for wireless games to be US$6 billion by 2005.
Contacts:
Nancy Sherrer, Sprint PCS
Nsherr02@mail.sprintpcs.com
913-762-7032
Richard Mosher, Kalador Entertainment
rmosher@kalador.com
604-831-3740
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