NEC supplies Greek Digital Network Operator Digea with DVB-T Transmitters

*** For immediate use February 1, 2010

Tokyo February 1st 2010 - NEC Corporation (NEC) announced today that it has signed an exclusive five-year agreement with Digea (PSIFIAKOS PAROCHOS S.A.) for the supply of NEC DVB-T transmitters. The agreement, signed in autumn 2009, will allow Digea to launch one of the largest and most modern (MPEG-4) private DVB-T networks in the country, with a near 100 per cent population coverage.

Digea is a Greek Digital Network Operator that provides a broadcasting network for digital terrestrial television transmission in Greece, offering seven free-to-air nationwide Greek private TV channels (Alpha, Alter, ANT1, Makedonia TV, MEGA, SKAI, STAR).

Within the framework of this agreement, it covers more than 300 DVB-T transmitters; in 2009 NEC provided the equipment for transmission from Xilokastro, Peloponnesus, while transmission is currently underway at Thessaloniki and Athens Patras and Larissa that will follow within the first half of 2010.
With the use of NEC transmission technology, the Digea network will cover approximately 60 per cent of the population by early 2010, broadcasting in DVB-T/MPEG-4.

The CEO of Digea, George Mathios, said: "Our commitment to the Greek consumers to provide top quality services. To this end we have trust in NEC's expertise and products to provide high-quality transmission solutions, which is essential Digital Terrestrial TV broadcasting."

"We are proud of the agreement with Digea, which is another landmark in the success record of NEC in the segment of digital terrestrial broadcasting networks and a very important step in the growth of NEC in this country", said Mr. Govigli, President and CEO of NEC Italia, (including the Italian, Greek and Maltese markets).

NEC is a reliable and recognized total solution provider of broadcasting systems, having supplied radio, analogue, and digital transmitters and studio equipment to customers in more than 110 countries worldwide over the past eight decades.

NEC has the multi-level expertise to help television operators turn transformational power into profitable reality. As one of the world leaders in digital broadcasting technology, NEC offers the bottom-line business skills to support every step of operators' progressive migration from standard to high-definition TV systems.

This expertise stands out in the digital TV transmitter field, in particular: NEC has delivered terrestrial broadcasting systems to more than 30 countries, including Greece, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Australia, South Korea, Japan, India, Morocco, India and Brazil. More than 1,900 digital TV transmitter systems have made NEC a leading worldwide supplier.