NEC Supplies Middle East and Africa's First Ever Digital TV Transmitters
through Morocco SNRT
- Marks total sales of 1000 digital TV transmitter systems -
*****For immediate use April 26th, 2007
Tokyo, April 26th, 2007 -- NEC Corporation today announced that it completed the supply of 12 digital terrestrial TV transmitters, which were ordered in July, 2006, to National Company of Radio and TV Broadcasting (SNRT). The broadcasting system started operations on March, 2007.
In the project carried out by SNRT, NEC supplied 12 digital terrestrial TV transmitters that adopt the Digital Video Broadcasting-Terrestrial (DVB-T) standard to 6 major cities including Rabat, Casablanca, Marrakesh, Tangier, Oujda, and Meknes. This is the very first full-scale commercial digital terrestrial broadcasting system in the Middle East and Africa, and covers 54% of the population of Morocco.
In order to promote the spread of digital terrestrial TV, SNRT is now working on more projects, for which NEC has supplied an order for 10 digital terrestrial TV transmitters to 9 major local cities in Morocco in March 2007.
Morocco expects to realize full switch over from analog to digital in 2015, and the backbone network among transmitter stations will be developed along with the spread of digital terrestrial TV. NEC intends to contribute to the development of Moroccan infrastructure by leveraging its comprehensive expertise in the areas of broadcasting and telecommunications.
In 1997, NEC received an order for the world's first digital terrestrial TV transmitters from NTL in England. Since then, NEC has supplied digital terrestrial TV transmitters worldwide, and recently achieved cumulative sales of 1000 systems (note 1*).
- About NEC's Broadcasting Business
- NEC is a highly accomplished total solution provider of broadcasting systems, having supplied transmitters and studio equipment to customers in 103 countries worldwide over the past eight decades. On the strength of extensive business inroads made with broadcasting stations, NEC has built up the know-how and experience needed to supply and support customers with the most advanced and reliable systems available. This expertise stands out in the digital TV transmitter field in particular. In 1998, NEC supplied transmitters to the U.K. for start up of the world's first commercial terrestrial digital broadcasting commercial service. Over the years since, NEC has delivered digital terrestrial systems to more than 27 countries including Sweden, Finland, Spain, Australia, South Africa, South Korea, Singapore, India, Brazil, Mexico, China, and Japan, emerging as the leading supplier of digital TV transmitter equipment worldwide. NEC has supplied the world with a running total of around 1100 digital TV transmitter systems to date.
- About NEC Corporation
- NEC Corporation (NASDAQ: NIPNY) is one of the world's leading providers of Internet, broadband network and enterprise business solutions dedicated to meeting the specialized needs of its diverse and global base of customers. NEC delivers tailored solutions in the key fields of computer, networking and electron devices, by integrating its technical strengths in IT and Networks, and by providing advanced semiconductor solutions through NEC Electronics Corporation. The NEC Group employs more than 150,000 people worldwide.
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Notes
| (note 1) | The 1000th digital terrestrial TV transmitter was ordered from Nagasaki Broadcasting Company in Japan. |
NEC Press Contacts
| Akiko Shikimori |
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