CommScope Expands German Distribution Network with Appointment of NETSTORe Trading GmbH

January 7, 2011 BRAY, Ireland

CommScope, Inc., a global leader in infrastructure solutions for communications networks, has entered into a distribution agreement relating to its Enterprise Solutions products with NETSTORe Trading GmbH from Markt Indersdorf near Munich (Bayern). NETSTORe’s appointment is with immediate effect and significantly strengthens CommScope’s distribution of products from its Enterprise Solutions business in the German market.

“The availability of our Enterprise products to business customers is a key building block for our continued growth and success in the German market,” said Christian Berger, regional sales director for Germany and Switzerland, CommScope. “Our motivation to enter into this agreement with NETSTORe is based on their outstanding reputation and high customer satisfaction. NETSTORe is also the perfect fit for our channel program, which is designed to deliver consistent global standards to our customers’ ever-changing requirements.”

“By partnering with a global leader like CommScope, we will expand our efforts in attracting new customers,” said Wolfram Kurz, managing director, NETSTORe Trading GmbH. “Their wide range of high performance network infrastructure products and solutions, combined with our partner network, represents a differentiated value proposition for our customers.”

Kurz added that his company’s specialists have years of field experience with CommScope’s product line.

“We support our partners and customers both in the planning and implementation phase of complex infrastructures,” Kurz said, “thus creating the basis for using new technologies and applications.”

NETSTORe Trading GmbH will immediately begin selling CommScope’s SYSTIMAX® network infrastructure solutions and its resulting corresponding product portfolio.

About CommScope

CommScope, Inc. (NYSE: CTV; www.commscope.com) provides essential infrastructure that makes communication possible. We empower people to connect and communicate seamlessly where, when, and how they choose. Our solutions and services for wired and wireless networks enable high-bandwidth data, video, and voice applications everywhere—at home, at work, and on the go. Through every wave of technology, CommScope helps the world connect and evolve. Backed by numerous respected brands such as Andrew®, SYSTIMAX® and Uniprise®, CommScope supports customers in more than 100 countries around the world through its focus on integrity, ethics, quality and technical innovation.

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. For a more detailed description of the factors that could cause such a difference, please see CommScope’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 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.

Über NETSTORe Trading GmbH / About NETSTORe

NETSTORe Trading bietet Glasfaser- und Kupferverkabelungssysteme für Gebäude und Rechenzentren, sowie Netzwerk Messtechnik Produkte von führenden Technologieanbietern mit ergänzenden Mehrwertdienstleistungen. Die NETSTORe Trading GmbH ist ein Schwester-unternehmen der 3KV GmbH. 3KV wurde im Jahr 1996 gegründet hat sich seither sehr erfolgreich als Value Add Distributor von aktiven Netzwerk- und Sicherheitslösungen etabliert.

Diese Pressemitteilung enthält zukunftsbezogene Aussagen, die auf dem Management zur Verfügung stehenden Informationen, den Ansichten des Managements sowie auf einigen Annahmen hinsichtlich zukünftiger Ereignisse basieren. Zukunftsbezogene Aussagen sind keine Leistungsgarantie und unterliegen verschiedenen Ungewissheiten und anderen Faktoren, durch die die tatsächlichen Ergebnisse wesentlich von den derzeit erwarteten Ergebnissen abweichen könnten. Eine genauere Beschreibung der Faktoren, die eine derartige Abweichung verursachen können, finden Sie in den Unterlagen von CommScope, die der amerikanischen Börsenaufsichtsbehörde (Securities and Exchange Commission) vorliegen. Durch die Bereitstellung zukunftsbezogener Aussagen beabsichtigt das Unternehmen nicht – und verpflichtet sich diesbezüglich in keiner Weise – diese Aussagen aufgrund neuer Informationen, zukünftiger Ereignisse usw. zu aktualisieren.

News Media Contact:
Fiona Nolan, CommScope
+353 1 2042000 or fnolan@commscope.com
or
Investor Contact:
Phil Armstrong, CommScope
+1 828-323-4848
or
Pressekontakt:
Andreas Hahner, NETSTORe
+49 (0) 89 800 65 6 - 34 oder info@netstore-trading.de