Enables High Performance and Reduced Antenna Size for Multi-
               band Dongles, Notebooks and Handsets

SAN DIEGO, March 10, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ethertronics, a leading
provider of standard and customized embedded antenna solutions for
wireless devices, today announced that it has developed a
high-efficiency, active band switching antenna solution. By leveraging
its patented Isolated Magnetic Dipole(TM) (IMD) technology, which
enables high performance and isolation, Ethertronics' new small form
factor antenna solution supports advanced band switching across the
major cellular bands including LTE in the 700 MHz bands.

Since LTE's ultimate benefits include spectrum efficiency, increased
capacity and data rates, and lowered cost per bit, to date, more than
50 operators across the globe have publicly committed to launching LTE
within the next two years. Operators are leading the charge to make LTE
a commercial reality, asking mobile device OEMs to provide LTE-enabled
dongles, notebooks and handsets.

Given that MIMO has been designed into the LTE specification, multiple
antennas are required per mobile device with good isolation, low
correlation co-efficiency, and high matched efficiencies. The form
factors of the devices still have stringent size requirements, making
it challenging for the antennas to fit into the desired form factors
while still providing high performance. Ethertronics' patented IMD
technology provides a physically small, "self resonant" antenna with
the industry's highest levels of isolation, which allows for low
correlation, high-matched efficiencies, as well as the ability to be
placed in close proximity to a second antenna. By coupling this with
its active technology, Ethertronics has developed a solution that
allows for further size reduction, support for multiple bands and
modes, and the ability to meet carrier specs more easily. This patented
IMD Active technology has already been demonstrated with measured data
in several different mobile device platforms for dongles, notebooks,
and handsets.

"When the industry moved from 2G to 3G, one thing remained the same --
efficiency and coverage were paramount for driving voice and data user
adoption. The industry expects no less as it moves toward 4G," said
Laurent Desclos, Ethertronics' President and CEO. "As an increasing
number of operators publicly commit to LTE, their demand for a more
efficient 4G network to ease the cellular capacity crunch has created a
need for devices that place more focus on the last leg of the RF
front-end, and this is where active antennas are key. These devices
will easily toggle between an array of spectrum bands to support the
mix of legacy 2G/3G and new 4G networks. Ethertronics offers the best
blend of size and performance for multi-band active antenna switching,
which we believe will further ready operators and manufacturers
worldwide to take their 4G networks to commercial availability."

Ethertronics IMD-enabled active band switching technology is being
actively designed in on a variety of device form factors. This
technology can enable ultra-small-sized antennas, which achieve very
high levels of efficiency across all major cellular bands including
850, 900, 1800, 1900, 2100, 2300, and 2600MHz as well as LTE 700MHz
bands 13 and 17.

Ethertronics will be showing this new technology at CTIA Wireless 2010.
Contact PR@ethertronics.com to schedule an appointment.

About Ethertronics, Inc.

Ethertronics designs and manufactures high-performance embedded antenna
solutions for wideband and multi-band wireless devices. Ethertronics'
leading-edge product lines, including Prestta(TM) metal, SavviTM
ceramic, and TavvelTM active antennas support a wide range of
applications including cellular, UMTS, WiFi, LTE, WiMAX, Bluetooth,
GPS, FM, MediaFLO, CMMB and DVB-H/T, among others. The company's
patented Isolated Magnetic Dipole(TM) (IMD) technology enables smaller
size, design implementation flexibility, shortened design cycle and
higher overall performance, while simultaneously meeting and improving
upon standard safety emission requirements. Ethertronics' antennas have
been selected by major customers worldwide garnering an installed base
approaching 250 million units. Ethertronics maintains a global network
of design centers and low-cost, high-volume manufacturing operations.
For more information, visit www.ethertronics.com.

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