EXHIBIT 99

                              COMMSCOPE, INC.
                   EXHIBIT 99 - FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION

   The Private  Securities  Litigation  Reform Act of 1995 provides a "safe
harbor" for  forward-looking  statements.  The Company's  Form 10-K for the
year ended December 31, 1998, the Company's  Annual Report to Stockholders,
any Form  10-Q or Form 8-K of the  Company,  or any other  oral or  written
statements made by or on behalf of the Company, may include forward-looking
statements which reflect the Company's current views with respect to future
events and financial  performance.  These  forward-looking  statements  are
identified by their use of such terms and phrases as  "intends,"  "intend,"
"intended,"   "goal,"   "estimate,"   "estimates,"   "expects,"   "expect,"
"expected," "project,"  "projects,"  "projected,"  "projections,"  "plans,"
"anticipates,"    "anticipated,"   "should,"   "think",    "designed   to,"
"foreseeable  future,"  "believe,"  "believes" and  "scheduled" and similar
expressions.  Readers are  cautioned  not to place undue  reliance on these
forward-looking  statements,  which speak only as of the date the statement
was made. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise
any  forward-looking  statements,  whether as a result of new  information,
future events or otherwise.

   The actual  results of the  Company  may differ  significantly  from the
results discussed in forward-looking  statements.  Factors that might cause
such a  difference  include,  but  are not  limited  to,  (a)  the  general
political,  economic and  competitive  conditions  in the United States and
other  markets  where  the  Company   operates;   (b)  changes  in  capital
availability  or  costs,   such  as  changes  in  interest  rates,   market
perceptions  of the  industry  in which the Company  operates,  or security
ratings;  (c)  employee  workforce  factors;  (d)  authoritative  generally
accepted accounting principles or policy changes from such standard-setting
bodies as the Financial  Accounting  Standards Board and the Securities and
Exchange Commission; (e) potential disruption from the "Year 2000" problem,
and the factors set forth below.

LEVERAGE; CERTAIN RESTRICTIONS UNDER CREDIT FACILITIES

   The Company is substantially  leveraged. The degree to which the Company
is leveraged  could have important  consequences,  including the following:
(i) the Company's ability to obtain additional  financing in the future for
working capital, capital expenditures,  product development,  acquisitions,
general  corporate  purposes  or other  purposes  may be  impaired;  (ii) a
portion of the Company's and its  subsidiaries'  cash flow from  operations
must be  dedicated  to the payment of the  principal of and interest on its
indebtedness;  (iii) the Credit Agreement, dated as of July 23, 1997, among
CommScope,  Inc.  of North  Carolina,  a  wholly  owned  subsidiary  of the
Company,  certain banks,  and The Chase Manhattan  Bank, as  Administrative
Agent,  contains  certain  restrictive  financial and operating  covenants,
including,  among others,  requirements  that the Company  satisfy  certain
financial ratios;  (iv) a significant  portion of the Company's  borrowings
are at floating rates of interest,  causing the Company to be vulnerable to
increases in interest rates;  (v) the Company's degree of leverage may make
it more vulnerable to a downturn in general economic  conditions;  and (vi)
the Company's degree of leverage may limit its flexibility in responding to
changing business and economic conditions.

DEPENDENCE OF THE COMPANY ON THE CABLE TELEVISION INDUSTRY AND CABLE
TELEVISION CAPITAL SPENDING

   The  majority  of the  Company's  revenues  come from sales to the cable
television industry. Demand for the Company's products depends primarily on
capital spending by cable television operators for constructing, rebuilding
or  upgrading  their  systems.  The amount of this capital  spending,  and,
therefore,  the  Company's  sales and  profitability  will be affected by a
variety of factors, including general economic conditions,  acquisitions of
cable television operators by non-cable television operators,  cable system
consolidation  within the  industry,  the  financial  condition of domestic
cable television operators and their access to financing,  competition from
satellite  and  wireless  television  providers  and  telephone  companies,
technological  developments  and new  legislation  and  regulation of cable
television  operators.  There can be no  assurance  that  cable  television
capital  spending  will increase  from  historical  levels or that existing
levels of cable television capital spending will be maintained.

   In  recent  years,  cable  television  capital  spending  has also  been
affected by new legislation and regulation, on the federal, state and local
level,  and many aspects of such  regulation  are  currently the subject of
judicial  proceedings and administrative or legislative  proposals.  During
1993 and 1994, the Federal  Communications  Commission  (the "FCC") adopted
rules under the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of
1992 (the  "1992  Cable  Act"),  regulating  rates  that  cable  television
operators  may  charge  for  lower  tiers  of  service  and  generally  not
regulating   the  rates  for  higher  tiers  of  service.   In  1996,   the
Telecommunications Act of 1996 (the "Telecom Act") was enacted to eliminate
certain governmental  barriers to competition among local and long distance
telephone, cable television, broadcasting and wireless services. The FCC is
continuing  its  implementation  of  the  Telecom  Act  which,  when  fully
implemented, may significantly impact the communications industry and alter
federal,  state and local laws and  regulations  regarding the provision of
cable  and  telephony  services.   Among  other  things,  the  Telecom  Act
eliminates  substantially  all  restrictions  on  the  entry  of  telephone
companies and certain public utilities into the cable television  business.
Telephone  companies  may  now  enter  the  cable  television  business  as
traditional  cable  operators,  as common carrier  conduits for programming
supplied by others, as operators of wireless  distribution  systems,  or as
hybrid common carrier/cable  operator providers of programming on so-called
"open  video  systems."  The  economic  impact of the 1992 Cable  Act,  the
Telecom Act and the rules thereunder on the cable  television  industry and
the Company is still uncertain.

   Although  the  domestic  cable  television   industry  is  comprised  of
thousands of cable systems,  a small number of cable  television  operators
own a majority  of cable  television  systems and account for a majority of
the capital  expenditures made by cable television  operators.  The loss of
some or all of the Company's  principal  cable  television  customers could
have a material adverse effect on the business of the Company.

TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY COMPETITION AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES AFFECTING
THE COMPANY

   Many of the  markets  that  the  Company  serves  are  characterized  by
advances in information  processing and  communications  capabilities which
require increased  transmission  speeds and greater capacity  ("bandwidth")
for carrying  information.  These advances require ongoing  improvements in
the capabilities of wire and cable products.  The Company believes that its
future  success  will depend in part upon its  ability to enhance  existing
products  and  to  develop  and  manufacture  new  products  that  meet  or
anticipate  such  changes.  The  failure  to  introduce  successful  new or
enhanced  products  on a timely and  cost-competitive  basis  could have an
adverse impact on the Company's operations and financial condition.

   Fiber optic technology presents a potential  substitute for the products
that comprise the majority of the  Company's  sales.  To date,  fiber optic
cables have penetrated the cable  television and local area network ("LAN")
markets served by the Company in high-bandwidth point-to-point and trunking
applications.   Fiber  optic  cables  have  not,  to  date,   significantly
penetrated  the local  distribution  and  residential  application  markets
served by the Company  because of the high relative  cost of  electro-optic
interfaces and the high cost of fiber  termination and  connection.  At the
same  time,  advances  in data  transmission  equipment  and  copper  cable
technologies have increased the relative performance of copper-based cables
which are the Company's principal product offerings. However, a significant
decrease  in the  cost of fiber  optic  systems  could  make  such  systems
superior on a price/performance  basis to copper systems. While the Company
is a fiber optic cable  manufacturer and supplier to a small portion of the
cable television market and certain specialty  markets,  such a significant
decrease in the cost of fiber optic  systems  would  likely have an adverse
effect on the Company.

COMPETITION

   The Company's coaxial, fiber optic and electronic cable products compete
with those of a substantial number of foreign and domestic companies,  some
with greater resources,  financial or otherwise,  than the Company, and the
rapid technological  changes occurring in the  telecommunications  industry
could lead to the entry of new competitors.  Existing  competitors' actions
and new  entrants  may have an adverse  impact on the  Company's  sales and
profitability.  The Company  believes  that it enjoys a strong  competitive
position in the coaxial cable market because of its position as a low-cost,
high-volume  coaxial cable  producer and its  reputation as a  high-quality
provider  of  state-of-the-art  cables,  along with its strong  orientation
toward  customer  service.  However,  there  can be no  assurance  that the
Company will continue to compete successfully with its existing competitors
or that it will be able to compete successfully with new competitors.

IMPACT OF PRICE FLUCTUATIONS OF RAW MATERIALS ON THE COMPANY; SOURCES OF RAW
MATERIALS

   Fabricated aluminum,  plastics,  bi-metals, copper and optical fiber are
the  principal raw  materials  purchased by the Company,  and the Company's
profitability  may be  affected  by changes  in the  market  price of these
materials (which are linked to the commodity markets). Although the Company
has  generally  been  able to pass  on  increases  in the  price  of  these
materials to its customers, there can be no assurance that the Company will
be able to do so in the future. Additionally,  significant increases in the
price  of the  Company's  products  due to  increases  in the  cost  of raw
materials  could  have a  negative  effect  on  demand  for  the  Company's
products.

   A  significant  portion of the  Company's  raw  material  purchases  are
bi-metallic  center conductors for coaxial cables,  nearly all of which are
purchased from Copperweld  Corporation under a long-term supply arrangement
expiring  in March  2000.  If the  Company  becomes  unable to  continue to
purchase bi-metallic center conductors from this supplier, either before or
after expiration of this  arrangement,  the Company may be unable to obtain
these raw materials on commercially  acceptable  terms from another source.
The Company  recently  acquired  the clad wire  fabrication  equipment  and
technology of Texas Instruments Incorporated for manufacturing  copper-clad
aluminum wire and copper-clad steel wire. The Company anticipates beginning
production in late 1999. At full capacity,  this  acquisition will give the
Company the ability to produce a significant portion of the bi-metal center
conductors  used by the Company.  In addition to  bi-metallic  wires,  fine
aluminum wire,  which is a smaller raw material  purchase than  bi-metallic
wire, is purchased  primarily  from a single source.  However,  the Company
also  intends  to pursue  fine wire  drawing  to  produce  braid  wires for
flexible  coaxial  cables.  Neither of these major raw  materials  could be
readily  replaced  in  sufficient  quantities  if  all  supplies  from  the
respective  primary  sources were disrupted for an extended  period and the
Company  was  unable  to  vertically  integrate  the  production  of  these
products.  In such event, there could be a materially adverse impact on the
Company's financial results.  Additionally,  fluorinated-ethylene-propylene
(FEP)  is the  primary  raw  material  used  throughout  the  industry  for
producing  flame-retarding  cables  for  LAN  applications.  There  are few
worldwide  producers  of FEP and  market  supplies  have been  periodically
limited over the past several years.  Availability of adequate  supplies of
FEP will be critical to future LAN cable sales growth.

INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS

Management  remains guarded about the near-term  outlook for  international
sales. During 1998,  international sales decreased by approximately 30%, or
$60.6  million,  compared to 1997,  due to monetary  crises in key overseas
markets, including the Pacific Rim and South America. Excluding the Seneffe
acquisition,  management expects 1999 international  sales to be relatively
unchanged  compared to 1998.  The Seneffe  operation is expected to provide
approximately  5% growth in total Company sales in 1999,  compared to 1998.
In the long run, the Company's management believes that continued growth in
international markets, including the developing markets in Asia, the Middle
East  and  Latin   America,   and  the   expected   privatization   of  the
telecommunications   structure  in  many  European   countries,   represent
significant future opportunities.  However, the Company cannot predict with
certainty  the  outlook for  international  sales in 1999 and beyond due to
unpredictable political and economic uncertainties.

   International  operations  are  subject to the usual  risks  inherent in
sales  abroad,  including  risks with respect to currency  exchange  rates,
economic  and  political  destabilization,  restrictive  actions by foreign
governments,  nationalizations,  the laws and policies of the United States
affecting trade, foreign investment and loans, and foreign tax laws.

ENVIRONMENT

   The Company is subject to various federal, state, local and foreign laws
and  regulations  governing  the use,  discharge  and disposal of hazardous
materials.  The Company's  manufacturing  facilities  are believed to be in
substantial  compliance with current laws and regulations.  Compliance with
current  laws and  regulations  has not had and is not  expected  to have a
material adverse effect on the Company's financial condition.

   The  Company's  present and past  facilities  have been in operation for
many  years,  and over that time in the  course of those  operations,  such
facilities have used substances which are or might be considered hazardous,
and the Company has  generated and disposed of wastes which are or might be
considered   hazardous.   Therefore,   it  is  possible   that   additional
environmental  issues may arise in the future which the Company  cannot now
predict.