Gemalto: Sprint extends relationship with Gemalto to manage growing LTE deployments across the U.S.

CTIA Las Vegas, September 8, 2015 - Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, broadens its longstanding relationship with Sprint through a multi-year contract to manage growing LTE deployments across the U.S. With 57.7 million subscribers, Sprint will use Gemalto's Allynis Advanced Over-the-Air (AOTA) Solution (http://www.gemalto.com/mobile/networks/advanced-connectivity-framework) as a Service (SaaS) Platform to facilitate LTE service activations and to manage the complexities of providing multi band 4G LTE connectivity. The Gemalto solution helps Sprint easily deliver customers the most up-to-date mobile technologies, services and innovations right to their fingertips.

Mobile networks have been evolving to 4G for several years, especially in the U.S., which represents more than 50 percent of the world's LTE connections (http://www.ctia.org/resource-library/facts-and-infographics/archive/US-LTE-Connections). Sprint's 4G LTE and Sprint Spark next generation LTE network, provides ubiquitous service and wireless IP connectivity that is serving as a gateway for more connected devices and the growing Internet-of-Things (IoT). The simplicity of Gemalto's AOTA hosted solution reduces the need for expensive installations. Sprint has a flexible solution to meet the increasing high-speed connectivity demands of IoT applications.

Leveraging Gemalto's Allynis AOTA SaaS Platform, Sprint has swift service provisioning for new devices and seamless technical updates and software improvements. It is especially beneficial when Sprint needs to manage the handover between 3G and 4G networks for optimized wireless service. The ease-of-use enables Sprint to maintain focus on delivering trusted digital services to their subscribers.

"Our over-the-air technology currently enables 240 operators worldwide and with increased demands for connectivity, Sprint and many others are opting to migrate to our more advanced and robust Advanced OTA platform," said Sebastien Cano, President of North America at Gemalto. "Gemalto's highly developed roadmap for delivering AOTA services worldwide is ideal for any operator interested in evolving to next generation networks or expanding 4G LTE services."

About Gemalto

Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO) is the world leader in digital security, with 2014 annual revenues of €2.5 billion and blue-chip customers in over 180 countries.

Gemalto helps people trust one another in an increasingly connected digital world. Billions of people want better lifestyles, smarter living environments, and the freedom to communicate, shop, travel, bank, entertain and work - anytime, everywhere - in ways that are enjoyable and safe. In this fast moving mobile and digital environment, we enable companies and administrations to offer a wide range of trusted and convenient services by securing financial transactions, mobile services, public and private clouds, eHealthcare systems, access to eGovernment services, the Internet and internet-of-things and transport ticketing systems.

Gemalto's unique technology portfolio - from advanced cryptographic software embedded in a variety of familiar objects, to highly robust and scalable back-office platforms for authentication, encryption and digital credential management - is delivered by our world-class service teams. Our 14,000 employees operate out of 99 offices, 34 personalization and data centers, and 24 research and software development centers located in 46 countries.

For more information visit www.gemalto.com (http://www.gemalto.com/), www.justaskgemalto.com (http://www.justaskgemalto.com/), blog.gemalto.com (http://blog.gemalto.com/), or follow @gemalto (http://twitter.com/gemalto) on Twitter.

Gemalto media contacts:

Philippe Benitez North America [phone] [e-mail] (mailto:[e-mail])	Peggy Edoire Europe & CIS [phone] [e-mail] (mailto:[e-mail])	Vivian Liang Greater China [phone] [e-mail] (mailto:[e-mail])
Ernesto Haikewitsch Latin America [phone] [e-mail] (mailto:[e-mail])	Kristel Teyras Middle East & Africa [phone] [e-mail] (mailto:[e-mail])	Pierre Lelievre Asia Pacific [phone] [e-mail] (mailto:[e-mail])

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