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Sasken Establishes Authorized Test Lab in North America For Qualcomm Customers

Testing and Certification Services Reduce Device Time to Market for Qualcomm Customers

Bangalore, April 28th  2011– Sasken Communication Technologies Limited (BSE: 532663 & NSE: SASKEN), a leading Indian communications solutions company, announced today that it hasentered into an agreement with Qualcomm Incorporated to be an Authorized Test Lab (ATL) for the North American market. This lab investment from Sasken is expected to provide high quality performance testing on 3G/HSPA+ platforms and devices for compliance with regulatory and operator requirements. The lab will offer Qualcomm and its customers testing services, including conformance, interoperability support, field-testing and assistance in troubleshooting and debugging. The Lab is currently in the process of ISO17025 Certification and will be ready soon to offer GCF Certification of Devices.

“As a Qualcomm Authorized Test Lab, Sasken will assist Qualcomm customers in reducing cycle time and costs for platform and device certification,” said Bharat Shah, Vice President, Business Development, Sasken. “We are making significant investments in this lab to help ensure that Qualcomm platforms are tested according to the conformance and regulatory requirements”.

“We are pleased to have entered into this agreement with Sasken for the benefit of our OEM and operator partners,” said Michael Warlick, Vice President of Engineering for Qualcomm. “Sasken has established a strong competence in 3G device certification and testing, and we look forward to the benefits this lab will provide our customers.”

About Sasken

Sasken Communication Technologies Limited (BSE: 532663 & NSE: SASKEN) is an embedded communications solutions company that helps businesses across the communication value chain accelerate product development life cycles.

Sasken offers a unique combination of research and development consultancy, wireless software products, software services and network engineering services, and works with Network OEMs, Semiconductor Vendors, Terminal Device OEMs and Operators across the world. Global Fortune 500 and Tier 1 companies in these segments are part of Sasken's customer profile.

Established in 1989, Sasken employs over 3,500 people at its offices in India, China, Finland, Japan, Korea, UK and USA. For further information please visit www.sasken.com

Disclaimer on Forward Looking Statements:

Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements due to risks or uncertainties associated with our expectations with respect to, but not limited to, our ability to successfully implement our strategy and our growth and expansion plans, technological changes, our exposure to market risks, general economic and political conditions in India which have an impact on our business activities or investments, changes in the laws and regulations that apply to the Indian IT services industry, including with respect to tax incentives and export benefits, adverse changes in foreign laws, including those relating to outsourcing and immigration, increasing competition in and the conditions of the Indian and global IT services industry, the prices we are able to obtain for our services, wage levels in India for IT professionals, the loss of significant customers the monetary and interest policies of India, inflation, deflation, unanticipated turbulence in interest rates, foreign exchange rates, equity prices or other rates or prices, the performance of the financial markets in India and globally, changes in domestic and foreign laws, regulations and taxes and changes in competition in the information technology/ telecommunication industries. Additional risks that could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our Red herring filing. The company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the Company.

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Media Contact:

Syed Shahid Mehdi
Manager Corporate Communications
Email : pr@sasken.com
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