CommScope Granted Early Termination of HSR Waiting Period For Acquisition of TE Connectivity's Telecom, Enterprise and Wireless Businesses

April 14, 2015 HICKORY, NC

CommScope, Inc., a global leader in infrastructure solutions for communications networks, has been informed that the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice have granted early termination of the waiting period under Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, in connection with the previously announced agreement to acquire TE Connectivity’s Telecom, Enterprise and Wireless businesses.

CommScope continues to expect that the transaction will close by the end of this year, subject to contemplated financing, the remaining regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.

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CommScope (NASDAQ: COMM) helps companies around the world design, build and manage their wired and wireless networks. Our network infrastructure solutions help customers increase bandwidth; maximize existing capacity; improve network performance and availability; increase energy efficiency; and simplify technology migration. You will find our solutions in the largest buildings, venues and outdoor spaces; in data centers and buildings of all shapes, sizes and complexity; at wireless cell sites and in cable headends; and in airports, trains, and tunnels. Vital networks around the world run on CommScope solutions.

This press release includes forward-looking statements that are based on information currently available to management, management’s beliefs, as well as on a number of assumptions concerning future events. Forward-looking statements are not a guarantee of performance and are subject to a number of uncertainties and other factors, which could cause the actual results to differ materially from those currently expected. In providing forward-looking statements, the company does not intend, and is not undertaking any obligation or duty, to update these statements as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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