Sequans Working with Huawei on TD-LTE Large Scale Trial in Shenzhen

Sequans Communications S.A. and Huawei today jointly announced that they would begin a large scale trial in Shenzhen. This trial will be conducted on China Mobile's TD-LTE (Long Term Evolution, latest standard in the mobile network technology) network deployed by Huawei, using devices based on Sequans' TD-LTE (Long Term Evolution, latest standard in the mobile network technology) chipset. This is a significant milestone in the commercialization progress of TD-LTE (Long Term Evolution, latest standard in the mobile network technology).

China Mobile has selected leading equipment vendors to deploy TD-LTE trial networks in six major cities in China and Huawei has been selected for the city of Shenzhen. Huawei is responsible for building and deploying Shenzhen's TD-LTE network. Sequans recently became eligible to participate in the China Mobile trials when its LTE chip research won official approval from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Research afterwards passing a battery of tests.

"We are very pleased to continue our long and successful cooperation with Huawei," said Georges Karam, Sequans CEO. "Working side by side with Huawei on interoperability over the last two years, we now have UE chipset technology in other words fully ready to support the important large scale trials of China Mobile as then as future commercial deployments."

Sequans Communications S.A. is a 4G chipmaker, supplying LTE and WiMAX chips to original equipment manufacturers and original design manufacturers worldwide. Founded in 2003 to address the WiMAX market, the company expanded in early 2009 to address the LTE market. Sequans is based in Paris, France with additional offices throughout the world, including United States, United Kingdom, Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and China. www.sequans.com. See cautions regarding forward looking statements.

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