Alliance covers both ends of broadcasting: News from Frontier Silicon

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Frontier Silicon and Factum Electronics have formed a strategic alliance to supply broadcasters with complete broadcast solutions for mobile TV and digital radio. The alliance is being announced at the Beijing DAB digital broadcasting event (20th and 21st April 2006), as China rapidly moves forward to roll out mobile TV services in 2006. The two companies are leaders in digital broadcast technology in their respective fields: Factum Electronics in head-end infrastructure and Frontier Silicon in receiver modules.

The complete solutions jointly offered will allow broadcasters to benefit from and adopt new T-DMB/DAB features quickly and yield complete, well-tested and flexible solutions featuring a higher level of quality and stability.

'We recognise Factum Electronics as a key player in delivering DAB and T-DMB solutions to the broadcast industry, demonstrated by its strong position in providing infrastructure to the Korean T-DMB market', comments Anthony Sethill, CEO Frontier Silicon.

'Our decision to team up with Factum will deliver significant benefits to all parts of the T-DMB/DAB value chain'.

'Frontier Silicon is the leading supplier of T-DMB/DAB receiver modules and ICs', states Kenneth Lundgren, Managing Director of Factum Electronics.

'By combining efforts, we will effectively supply broadcasters world-wide with state-of-the-art digital broadcasting systems', concludes Kenneth Lundgren.

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