Transmode Holding AB : T-Mobile Austria selects Transmode to boost national network capacity

Stockholm, Sweden - September 12th, 2012 - Transmode, a global supplier of packet optical networking solutions, today announced that T-Mobile Austria has chosen Transmode's optical solutions to increase the capacity on its Austria-wide fiber network, to meet the growing needs of its mobile services customers.

T-Mobile Austria recently signed a Deed of Adherence with Transmode, which enables T-Mobile Austria to take advantage of the frame agreement previously agreed between Transmode and Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile Austria's parent company. After considering a range of solutions, T-Mobile Austria chose Transmode's TG-Series solution on the basis of its advantageous technical performance and rapid projected return on investment.

T-Mobile Austria required the network expansion offered by Transmode's TG-Series WDM solution to increase capacity on its existing fiber network to support the growth in traffic within their mobile networks across the whole country. This is a passive WDM solution, which is effectively an overlay that will enable greater capacity on T-Mobile Austria's existing fiber network.

Manfred Reiff, Senior Manager Multilayer Transmission Planning at T-Mobile Austria, commented, "We were looking for a cost efficient and flexible solution to combine 10G and STM-16 services on the same infrastructure. We needed the new system to operate in parallel with the existing SDH network and our new IP platform. Transmode's solution was a well proven technology in our parent company and T-Mobile Austria is happy to be deploying it as well."

T-Mobile Austria says it has seen a linear increase in traffic of 100% in the past few years, with the main traffic generators being mobile data cards used for ADSL substitution, smart phones and tablets. Social media such as Youtube and Facebook are the leading applications driving bandwidth growth. T-Mobile is also now offering a new music-streaming platform called Deezer and the company is expecting a lot of bandwidth growth from this product as well.

Björn Andersson, Transmode's Vice President Sales commented, "We are delighted to be announcing T-Mobile Austria as a new Transmode customer. This important contract follows the productive agreement between Transmode and Deutsche Telekom. We look forward to supporting T-Mobile Austria in its ambitions to improve user experience, drive down network costs and offer new service capabilities."

For more information please contact:

Ola Elmeland
Vice President Marketing
Transmode Systems AB
Telephone: +46 8 506 882 71
Email: ola.elmeland@transmode.com:
mailto:ola.elmeland@transmode.com

About Transmode
Transmode is a global provider of packet-optical networking solutions that enable fixed line and mobile network operators to cost effectively address the capacity needs created by the rapid growth in video and data traffic. These solutions are important building blocks in next-generation high-speed optical networks that support services such as broadband backhaul, mobile data backhaul, video delivery services and cloud computing. Transmode's solutions are based on Wavelength Division Multiplexing:
http://www.transmode.com/technologies/wdm (WDM) and packet optical transport:
http://www.transmode.com/technologies/native-packet-optical technologies, which are designed to increase the capacity, flexibility and functionality of optical metro core and metro access networks. Transmode's Intelligent WDM (iWDM(TM)):
http://www.transmode.com/en/technologies/iwdm approach gives key advantages to customers, such as ultra-low latency, low power consumption and innovative network design.

Transmode is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden and is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm Exchange (TRMO). Since 2000 the company has installed more than 30,000 systems for over 400 fixed and mobile:
http://www.transmode.com/solutions/mobile-backhaul network operators, service providers, large enterprises and public institutions in over 40 countries across the globe.

For additional information about Transmode, please visit www.transmode.com:
http://www.transmode.com/

About T-Mobile Austria
T-Mobile Austria has 4,060 million customers and is the second biggest mobile operator in Austria. The company is known for driving innovation in the Telco Business. Both brands "T-Mobile" and "tele.ring" address two different target groups:
T-Mobile lives by the slogan "Life is for sharing" and offers innovation in regards to smartphones, services and applications. The brand tele.ring is the successful "value for price"-leader on the Austrian telecommunication market.
In 2011 T-Mobile invested over ? 100 million in the network with a specific focus on the roll out of HSPA+ and the next generation mobile network LTE. T-Mobile Austria has 1.400 employees. In 2011 the company was awarded as one of the most attractive employers in Austria from Aon Hewitt. T-Mobile's headquarter the T-Center is based in Vienna on the Rennweg near the "Südost-Tangente". Next to 48 T-Mobile shops T-Mobile also has sales offices in Salzburg, Innsbruck, Graz and Klagenfurt.

T-Mobile Austria is a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG and hence, belongs to one of the world's leading companies in telecommunications. The company's international outlook allows T-Mobile customers to benefit from a wide range of products and services, both at home and abroad.