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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 17:07:05 +0000
From: Richi Jennings <richi@hp.com>
Subject: HP and Sprint PCS Form Alliance to Put Corporate Email Access in the 

Final text of today's OpenMail announcement from HP and Sprint PCS.

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Editorial Contacts:

     Shirley Quastler, HP
     +1 408 447 6174
     shirley_quastler@hp.com

     Suzanne Lammers
     Media Relations, Sprint PCS
     +1 816 559 1787
     slamme01@sprintspectrum.com

HP and Sprint PCS Form Alliance to Put Corporate Email Access in the
                     Hands of Mobile Professionals

Relationship Enables Business Customers to Access Corporate Email on the

             Go from Their Sprint PCS Internet-ready Phones

PALO ALTO, Calif. and KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 19, 2000 -- Hewlett-Packard

Company (NYSE: HWP) and Sprint PCS (NYSE: PCS), the nation's fastest
growing wireless carrier, today announced an agreement to jointly market

and sell the HP Openmail Anywhere solution as part of the Sprint PCS
Wireless Web for Business. The solution enables business customers to
wirelessly access their corporate email on Sprint PCS Internet-ready
Phones anywhere, anytime on the Sprint PCS all-CDMA, all-digital
nationwide network.

HP and Sprint PCS will provide quick and easy access for enterprises
that want their employees to be able to wirelessly access their
electronic mailboxes, folders and directories while they are out of the
office or on the go. Companies that choose to deploy the HP Openmail
Anywhere solution will be able to respond to their email, look up names
in their directories and manage their corporate information on any one
of 18 Sprint PCS Internet-ready Phones.

HP's wireless email solution leverages the award-winning HP Praesidium
Virtualvault Web server platform to ensure secure remote access through
the corporate firewall. Sprint PCS business customers will have the
benefit of this built-in security measure when accessing their corporate

email whether they use their Sprint PCS Internet-ready Phones or laptops

connected via Sprint PCS Wireless Web Connection.

"By working with Sprint PCS, we can offer a range of secure, mobile
options for business customers," said Nigel Upton, general manager, HP
Openmail Business Unit. "This solution will enhance the productivity of
mobile professionals while they are out of the office and help provide a

competitive advantage for those companies that adopt a wireless email
solution early."

"Email is the number one application that business users want to access
when away from their desks," said Jay Highley, vice president, business
marketing for Sprint PCS. "With HP's Openmail Anywhere solution paired
with the Sprint PCS Wireless Web for Business, you no longer have to be
tied to your desktop or carry your laptop to access your email, folders
and corporate address book. It's as simple as hitting a few buttons on
your Sprint PCS Internet-ready Phone to have this information at your
fingertips."

The two companies have agreed to work together to deliver the wireless
data solution to Fortune 2000 Enterprise customers. Sprint PCS and HP
also plan to market the solution through Openmail resellers and
application service providers (ASPs) to small- and medium-sized
businesses. The joint solution is expected to be rolled out to key
companies over the next few months.


About Sprint PCS

Sprint PCS operates the largest 100 percent digital, 100 percent PCS,
voice and data 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 business and residential customers.


About Openmail

Openmail is HP's strategic business messaging and collaboration solution

for Linux and UNIX(R) systems, based on Internet standards. More
information about Openmail is available at
http://www.hp.com/go/openmail.


About HP

Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing and
imaging solutions and services -- is focused on making technology and
its benefits accessible to individuals and businesses through simple
appliances, useful e-services and an Internet infrastructure that's
always on.

HP has 88,500 employees worldwide and had total revenue from continuing
operations of $48.8 billion in its 2000 fiscal year. Information about
HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at
http://www.hp.com.

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