NEC Corporation has completed the supply of 12 digital terrestrial TV transmitters, which were ordered in July, 2006, to National Company of Radio and TV Broadcasting (SNRT) of Morocco.

The broadcasting system started operations in 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 six major cities including Rabat, Casablanca, Marrakesh, Tangier, Oujda, and Meknes, said an official spokesman.

This is the very first full-scale commercial digital terrestrial broadcasting system in the Middle East and Africa, and covers 54 per cent 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 nine major local cities in Morocco in March 2007.

Morocco expects to realise 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.TradeArabia News Service