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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
Sprint Launches Premium Daily Comics With Mobile Comics Network™
January 21st, 2004 – Hundreds of millions of Americans read comics every day in newspapers, comic books and graphic novels. Now, through the combined efforts of Sprint (NYSE: FON, PCS) and FunMail Inc., they will be able to read comics anytime, anywhere on select full-color PCS Vision Phones. These comics, powered by FunMail’s Mobile Comics Network™ (MCN), launched nationwide on the enhanced nationwide PCS Network today. The service will give PCS Vision customers access to a wide variety of daily comics starring household names such as Dilbert®, Dick Tracy®, Zits®, Baby Blues®, Momma® and Beetle Bailey®.
“MCN offers a great selection of appealing content, delivered to the customer in a fun, innovative way,” said John Styers, Director of Data Communications Services for Sprint. “Comic readers can now access their favorite funnies on a device they always have with them – their PCS Vision Phone.”
The Sprint Comics service uses a comics “in box” that lets consumers receive a daily comic. Consumers can choose the comics they want – say Dilbert and Hagar the Horrible – and then those comics are delivered daily from a classic “Best Of” comics archive. Sprint comics subscribers can scroll through the comic at their own pace, clip favorite comics to a virtual scrapbook, and also rate comics from “Great!” to “Blah!” The top-rated comics are available to the Sprint Comics community in a “Top Ten” area. Each of the Sprint comics applications are available for $1.99 per month.
“Mobile Comics Network looks and feels fantastic on Sprint’s next-generation network and color handsets,” said FunMail CEO Adam Lavine. “We’re extremely proud of the work we’ve done with Sprint, and feel MCN’s daily stream of premium content will be of great interest and value to PCS Vision subscribers.”
The Mobile Comics Network server formats each comic for the Sprint handsets, optimizing the comic to a consumer’s screen size. The comics are crisp and vibrant on the Sprint phones, and can be easily and quickly downloaded anywhere on the Sprint enhanced nationwide PCS network.
MCN offers a broad variety of comics for a spectrum of tastes and lifestyles. Comics available on MCN include Dilbert, Beetle Bailey, Dick Tracy, Rose Is Rose, Hagar the Horrible, Momma, Baby Blues, Zits, Animal Crackers, Bound & Gagged, Los Kitos, Bizarro, Broom-Hilda, Herb and Jamaal, Mother Goose & Grimm, Nancy, Brenda Starr, Ferd’nand, The Other Coast and many more. Information is available at www.mobilecomicsnetwork.com
About FunMail
FunMail Inc. provides wireless messaging and premium content syndication services to carriers and mobile solution providers worldwide. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, FunMail's unique technology enables delivery of premium content including comics, wallpaper and 3G video services. FunMail is a venture-backed company led by investment group Leo Capital Holdings of Chicago. For more information, please visit www.funmail.com or www.mobilecomicsnetwork.com or email bizdev@funmail.com
About Sprint
Sprint is a global integrated communications provider serving more than 26 million customers in over 100 countries. With approximately 68,000 employees worldwide and nearly $27 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 and an award-winning Tier 1 Internet backbone. Sprint provides local communications services in 39 states and the District of Columbia and operates the largest 100-percent digital, nationwide PCS wireless network in the United States. For more information, visit www.sprint.com
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