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Cingular Wireless Announces Multimedia Messaging Interoperability With the Nation's Top Wireless Carriers Cingular Customers Can Use Their Camera Phones to Snap and Share Picture & Video Messages with More People than Ever Before ATLANTA, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Cingular customers can exchange pictures and short video messages, including text and audio, with any Cingular, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Leap Wireless and US Cellular customer, who has an MMS-enabled device, as well as any email address. With Intercarrier Multimedia Messaging Service, Cingular customers have access to the broadest wireless MMS community, representing 80 percent of wireless subscribers in the U.S. Interoperability is great news for all wireless customers as well as the wireless industry as it dramatically expands the mobile universe of family and friends with whom wireless users can share photos and videos. In other words, the wireless world just got a lot easier to navigate. All that's needed is an MMS-capable phone and the desire to share. "Making it possible for wireless users to share pictures and video messages with family and friends, regardless of carrier, is an important step in the widespread adoption of multimedia messaging," said Jim Ryan, vice president of Consumer Data Services, Cingular Wireless. "Cingular is excited to be delivering the full promise of wireless communication to our customers." Capturing and sharing special or everyday moments is quick and easy with Multimedia Messaging. Using the multimedia messaging feature of their camera phones, Cingular customers can instantly share messages that include text, photos, animated graphics, voice messages, music and video clips. Cingular supports a wide selection of multimedia-capable phones. For a complete list of phones, pricing, and additional information, please visit http://www.cingular.com/. About Cingular Wireless Cingular Wireless is the largest wireless carrier in the United States, serving more than 50.4 million customers. Cingular, a joint venture between SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC) and BellSouth Corporation (NYSE:BLS), has the largest digital voice and data network in the nation and the largest mobile-to-mobile community of any national wireless carrier. Cingular is the only U.S. wireless carrier to offer Rollover(SM), the wireless plan that lets customers keep their unused monthly minutes. Details of the company are available at http://www.cingular.com/. Get Cingular Wireless press releases e-mailed to you automatically. Sign up at http://www.cingular.com/newsroom. DATASOURCE: Cingular Wireless CONTACT: Kelleigh Scott of Cingular Wireless, +1-404-236-6321, Web site: http://www.cingular.com/ http://www.cingular.com/newsroom

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