News release

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® systems, based on Internet standards.

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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