SmartServ's BREW Team Poised to Capitalize on Verizon Wireless Commitment

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SmartServ's BREW Team Poised to Capitalize on Verizon Wireless Commitment

STAMFORD, Conn., Feb 11, 2002 -- SmartServ Online(R), Inc. (Nasdaq: SSOL), www.smartserv.com today announced a dedicated BREW(TM) team devoted to providing professional services to those enterprises who extend their services across QUALCOMM's BREW-committed carrier networks. BREW(TM) (QUALCOMM's Binary -Runtime Environment for Wireless) is a client-based application that simplifies and facilitates the task of integrating applications on wireless devices. SmartServ is a QUALCOMM Select BREW(TM) Developer.

According to a recent announcement, Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest wireless service provider, will be the first North American carrier to rollout BREW(TM) applications, expected as early as Q3 2002. SmartServ applications reside on the BREW(TM) platform.

The SmartServ BREW(TM) team comprises business development, project management, carrier relations, UI software development, and backend integration specialists. The full breadth of professional services range from application development, to testing and certification, to hosting and distribution through its secure, scalable carrier-grade data centers located in New York City and Stamford, Connecticut. The intention of these focused BREW(TM) services is to help enterprises minimize the time and effort required to develop, certify, test and launch applications to market.

SmartServ's BREW(TM) team has been working with QUALCOMM INTERNET SERVICES to convert the company's own financial services applications to BREW(TM) in anticipation of Verizon's commitment. In addition, SmartServ has been in discussions with several large entertainment, media and financial organizations about extending their existing Web-based content and services to BREW(TM).

"Never before has the wireless data market in the US witnessed a concerted effort among all disciplines to make the platform successful -- application developers, partner brands, and service providers -- in this case Verizon, with 30 million subscribers," noted Sam Cassetta, SmartServ CEO. "This, together with a subscriber revenue share model, as proposed by QUALCOMM, is sure to make BREW(TM) a success. I believe that the early uptake by Verizon may be the trigger for quick widespread carrier adoption," he concluded.

About SmartServ

SmartServ, founded in 1993, is a B2B wireless technology leader with a focus on providing financial institutions and network service providers with potent, real-time financial applications and transaction routing for virtually any portable device, such as PDA, RIM and mobile handsets, and over any wireless network including GSM, CDMA and the future 3G.

SmartServ's products include sophisticated engines capable of routing high-volume transactions, alerts, real-time global market quotes, and news to multiple destinations; proprietary W2W Middleware(TM) that configures content and applications for a wide array of devices and networks; and a suite of applications designed so that businesses and their customers can access real-time or streaming information in order to make critical financial decisions.

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