Pareteum Adds Blockchain Settlement for Cryptocurrency to Its Global Cloud Platform

NEW YORK, Dec. 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Pareteum Corporation (NYSE American: TEUM), ("Pareteum" or the "Company"), the rapidly growing mobile Cloud Communications Platform company, today announced that it has completed development enabling it to add support of Blockchain technology to its billing and settlement services. This newest service capability enables Pareteum customers to participate in the transformational "Digital Economy Monetization to the Cloud" and now accept and process Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Airtokens and other forms of cryptocurrencies.

According to Coinschedule, $287 million of cryptocurrency transactions or 7.8% of ICOs involved payments in 2017. This evolution began in 2016, noted Coinschedule, within the mobile payment industry with more than 50% of mobile users making a mobile payment, and it has continued in 2017 with the market expanding to $60 billion in mobile payments. Perhaps the biggest disrupter may be the technology behind digital currency. Blockchain has been noted as the potential foundation for building a new generation of transactional applications that establish trust and transparency while streaming business processes, which is critical to advancing adoption of mobile payments among consumers and businesses.

The new feature being offered to all Pareteum's Global Mobility Cloud customers will allow them to not only accept the cryptocurrencies but also to perform payment processing and settlements with their partners in any currency. For example, in the case of Smart Cities in emerging markets, creation of their own local cryptocurrencies is now a reality, facilitating primary economic benefit with the cities for their citizens. Last year, Pareteum announced a partnership with Airfox to integrate their advertising subsidy platform into the Application Exchange and Developer's Platform exchange based on the requirement for advertising to subsidize the costs of growing data service usage. Since then subsidies have gone beyond advertising and into micro-loans and cryptocurrency as the mobile phone penetrates more of daily life.

Vic Bozzo, CEO of Pareteum stated, "The demand in the mobile market for digital wallet applications has quickly morphed into a requirement to process and settle all forms of currency and an entire eco-system of applications relying on purely digital settlement has emerged. It's a natural requirement of any Mobile Platform provider to support this move as many mobile applications become reliant on mainstream digital currency and other applications begin to create their own."

Hal Turner, Executive Chairman and Principal Executive Officer of Pareteum, added, "We have sold solutions that take us, through our cloud services, into Smart Cities and cryptocurrency payment capabilities. It's not hard to imagine that we can live in an entire digital universe where all of our transactions may be managed through your own personal mobile phone, with secure identity management and digital payments. In thinking about this scenario, where essentially your mobile phone is your bank, without bricks and mortar, it's possible that throughout the day you may have earned enough digital currency through your transactions to be rewarded with that coffee or snack or phone minute or that extra megabyte of data. We envision a time in the not too distant future when Pareteum could create its own currency payments and settlements among the millions of subscribers on its platform globally. As we consider the new global mobile landscape, and Pareteum's service and capabilities developments in 2017, which have opened doors for us in the Internet of Things (IoT), Smart Cities, and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Leaning (ML) creating predicative analytics for the vast amounts of digital data we are capable of securely processing, we maintain an optimistic view towards 2018 and beyond."

About Pareteum Corporation

Pareteum Corporation and its subsidiaries provide a complete mobility cloud platform, utilizing messaging and security capabilities for the global Mobile, MVNO, Enterprise, Software-as-a-Service and IoT markets. The Company's software solutions allow any organization to harness the power of a wirelessly connected world by delivering seamless connectivity and subscriber management capabilities that provides end-to-end control of millions of connected devices. Mobile Network Operator (MNO) customers include Vodafone, the world's second largest mobile operator by customer count, Zain, one of the largest mobile operators in the Middle East, as well as MVNO customers such as Lebara and Lowi. For more information please visit: www.pareteum.com.

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Contractual Revenue Backlog Definition:
Contractual revenue backlog is measured on a forward looking 36 month snapshot view monthly, and, is generated by each of the Company's Managed Services, Global Mobility Cloud, and Application Exchange & Developer's Platform customers. The Pareteum multi-year Software-as-a-Service agreements include service establishment and implementation fees, guaranteed minimum monthly recurring fees, as well as contractually scheduled subscribers, in some cases including subscriber usage, during the term of the agreement, and, their resulting monthly recurring revenue. There can be no assurances that we reach the total revenue backlog. The revenue backlog assumes timing of revenue recognition that may vary from actual results.

Pareteum Investor Relations Contact:
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Chief Financial Officer
(212) 984-1096
InvestorRelations@pareteum.com

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