hotels.com Rooms and Rates Now Available on Mobile Phones for Sprint Vision Customers

DALLAS, June 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- hotels.com(R), the experts in booking hotels online, today announced that their hotel rooms and rates are now available on Sprint Vision phones. This is the first time consumers can access and book online travel site offerings via their mobile phones, developed with Sprint , an industry leader in advanced wireless data services, and OpenMotion, a leading mobile publisher of information content.

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Sprint Vision customers can access the hotels.com travel site on their phones by simply choosing "web", then selecting "find it/travel." This real time access allows them to view more than 70,000 hotels, vacation rentals and bed & breakfasts. To book, customers click on the "book it" icon and are routed through the booking process to complete the transaction.

"With this new offering, hotels.com customers can find hotel deals and book rooms on their Sprint mobile phones with many of the features consumers have on the website," said Scott Booker, vice president of Customer Marketing for hotels.com. "This includes sorting options, viewing pictures of properties and instant access to their itineraries without the need to print and carry the itinerary with them. The offering enables hotels.com to enhance our expert position by empowering customers with a free, powerful tool that is unique in the market."

This unique new offering broadens customer access to hotels.com services through OpenMotion LLC's mobile distribution platform. "The OpenMotion mobile platform integrates and delivers the hotels.com brand seamlessly to mobile phones, and facilitates mcommerce by giving hotels.com customers a secured way to reserve and pay for hotel rooms when they are on the go," said Rob Deubell, president of OpenMotion LLC.

About hotels.com

hotels.com(R) is a leading provider of lodging worldwide, offering reservation services through its own web sites (including http://www.hotels.com/ and others), its interactive affiliate network (http://www.ian.com/ ), and its toll-free call centers (1-800-2-HOTELS). hotels.com gives travelers one of the widest selections of lodging accommodations from traditional hotels to vacation rentals at more than 70,000 properties worldwide. hotels.com is an operating company of Expedia, Inc. .

About Sprint

Sprint is a global integrated communications provider serving more than 51 million customers in over 100 countries. With approximately 65,000 employees worldwide and over $39 billion in annual revenues in 2005, 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 all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands and operates the largest 100-percent digital, nationwide PCS wireless network in the United States. For more information, visit http://www.sprint.com/ .

About OpenMotion

OpenMotion is a leading mobile publisher of information content supporting to the worlds leading brands. Providing a combination of technological and innovation expertise, OpenMotion is a preferred information content provider to the wireless carriers, and major media companies. ConnectNow(TM) by OpenMotion allows consumers to connect directly to a merchant's telephone number from a wireless advertisement, or search result.

Hotels.com and the Hotels.com logo are registered trademarks or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries of Hotels.com, LP, a subsidiary of Hotels.com. Other logos or products and company names mentioned herein may be the property of their respective owners.

For more information, press only: Nanci Williams, hotels.com, 469-335-1528, nwilliams@hotels.com Rob Deubell, OpenMotion, 513-792-4270, rdeubell@openmotion.com