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uclick and Sprint to bring popular comic characters to Sprint PCS Phones!


KANSAS CITY, Mo., December 10, 2001 - uclick, an Andrews McMeel Universal Company, has teamed up with Sprint to bring Garfield, Ziggy, Cathy and other popular comic characters to Sprint PCS Phones. Sprint recently announced the launch of their new Sprint PCS Ringers and MoreSM wireless download service, a service that allows customers to personalize their phones with well-known characters, music and more. uclick is providing a number of brand-name comic characters to this new service, to keep customers smiling!

This new wireless download service connects Sprint customers with their favorite funnies characters from uclick. In addition to perennial favorites such as Garfield, Ziggy and Pat Oliphant's Punk, the uclick offering includes characters from cutting edge, newer comics like Bizarro, Captain RibMan, James and Mr. Man.

Sprint PCS customers will browse the Sprint PCS Ringers & More content at Sprintpcs.com or through the Sprint PCS Wireless Web. Content is then wirelessly downloaded to select Sprint PCS Phones and saved as customized ringers, or, in the case of uclick content, as screen savers. uclick is one of a select group of partners providing graphics for this new service.


Customers can download up to eight pieces of content from the Sprint PCS Ringers & More service and store it in their personal "vault" each month. The content accumulates each month. Sprint PCS Ringers & More is free for the first three months and is available with three of the newest Sprint PCS Phones: the Sprint PCS TP5250 by LG; the Sprint PCS SCP-5150 by Sanyo; and the Sprint PCS Kyocera 2255. After the first three months, the service will be $4 per month.

The line-up of phones that support the Sprint PCS Ringers & More service will continue to grow throughout 2002 and beyond.

Sprint PCS Ringers & More content providers are unlike those of any other download service and include the best in both music and graphics. "With uclick's content, our customers can now personalize their Sprint PCS Phones with some of their favorite comic characters," said Chip Novick, vice president of consumer marketing for Sprint PCS.

"uclick is pleased to be one of the select companies chosen to work with Sprint PCS to provide graphics for the phones," says Chris Pizey, chief operating officer of uclick. "We are working with Handtap Communications to transform uclick's most popular comic characters into customized images tailored specifically for Sprint PCS Phones. Delivering uclick's characters in this new context allows consumers to further deepen their relationship with our brands."

*The Ringers & More service may not be available in select affiliate markets.

About uclick
uclick is an Andrews McMeel Universal Company. Andrews McMeel Universal also includes Universal Press Syndicate and Andrews McMeel Publishing. As the largest packager and distributor of branded comics, word games and other content on the Web, uclick syndicates the highly sought-after work of more than 100 content creators to hundreds of sites, including more than 200 Newspaper Web sites. uclick content is also found on major portals such as AOL, Yahoo, MSNBC, and iWon. You'll recognize many of uclick's brands, including: Garfield, Doonesbury, Cathy, FoxTrot, Ziggy, Boondocks, Pat Oliphant, News of the Weird, Universal Crossword, Dear Abby and more. uclick is also building brands for the future, like Bizarro and Heart of the City. In addition, uclick develops and hosts Web sites of other key creators such as Garfield.com, Doonesbury.com, Ziggy.com and sites of other key creators.
uclick is located in Kansas City, Mo. Visit us in person or at www.uclick.com.

Contact: Sherrie Stuckey
Director of Marketing
(816) 300-6558
sstuckey@uclick.com
www.uclick.com

About Sprint
Sprint is a global communications company serving 23 million business and residential customers in more than 70 countries. With more than 80,000 employees worldwide and $23 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. Sprint's award-winning Tier 1 Internet backbone is being extended to key global markets to provide customers with a broad portfolio of scalable IP products. Sprint's high-capacity, high-speed network gives customers fast, dependable, non-stop access to the vast majority of the world's Internet content. Sprint also operates the largest 100-percent digital, nationwide PCS wireless network in the United States, already serving the majority of the nation's metropolitan areas including more than 4,000 cities and communities.

For more information, visit the Sprint PCS web site at http://www.sprintpcs.com.
Contacts:
Nancy Sherrer
Sprint PCS Media Relations
913-762-7032
nsherr02@mail.sprintpcs.com

Bit Vo
Sprint PCS Media Relations
913-762-7033
bvo01@mail.sprintpcs.com

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