Regional News Releases
14 September 2009

NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701), Casio Computer Co., Ltd. (Casio; TSE: 6952), and Hitachi, Ltd. (Hitachi; TSE: 6501/NYSE: HIT) today announced an agreement to integrate their mobile terminal businesses in April 2010 through the establishment of a joint venture company.

8 September 2009

NEC Corporation announced today its selection by Vietnam Mobile Telecom Services Company to deploy a mobile backhaul solution based on NEC’s ultra compact microwave communications system, PASOLINK.

7 September 2009

Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Fujitsu, NEC Corporation (NEC), Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) and NTT DOCOMO, INC. (DOCOMO) are pleased to announce the joint development and successful testing of common technical specifications for value-added IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network services.

7 September 2009

NEC Corporation (NEC), a leading provider of microwave and optical solutions, today announced that Pannon, the second largest mobile operator in Hungary and a subsidiary of Telenor, has chosen NEC to build a national optical transport network.

4 September 2009

NEC Corporation announced today the launch of sales for the MN5000 Series, a next generation packet transport device that uses MPLS-TP (*1) transmission to enable carrier networks to migrate to packet based networks, such as IP and Ethernet, with existing ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) and TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) transmission technologies, and bolsters NEC's portfolio of packet transport products.

3 September 2009

NEC Corporation, a leading provider of microwave and next generation transport solutions, today launched a new wireless and photonic solution for convergent mobile backhaul.

2 September 2009

NEC Corporation announced today the display of its compact outdoor LTE wireless base station at the NEC booth of the Broadband World Forum Europe 2009 (BBWFE 2009) (*1) held in Paris, France from 7-9 September.

31 August 2009

NEC Corporation (NEC) today announced that NEC Hong Kong Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation in Hong Kong, installed IPTV systems at Crown Towers and Hard Rock Hotel, two of the newest luxury hotels in Macau, SAR. These are NEC’s first installations of IPTV systems outside of Japan and NEC has provided everything from system design to its operation as a managed service.

31 August 2009

From 8 to 9 September, 2009, NEC Corporation (NEC) will be present at the 4th annual LTE Asia 2009, held in Hong Kong, to discuss strategies and challenges on LTE related technologies, deployment scenarios, business planning and evolution plans towards LTE and future high speed data services

20 August 2009

NEC Asia, a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation, appointed Mauritius-based Technology Management Services (TMS) Ltd to bring its wide range of advance IT Platform Solutions to Mauritius at a press conference today.

20 August 2009

NEC Asia, a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation introduces its full range of highly reliable and superior Fault-Tolerant (FT) server series at its press launch today. This follows the signing of commercial reseller agreement with its newly-appointed commercial reseller, Technology Management Services (TMS) Ltd.

20 August 2009

NEC Asia, a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation introduces its thin clients system, NEC’s Virtual PC Centre (VPCC). Global businesses across Asia have been facing a myriad of business challenges that include protective measures against threats to information as well as health concerns that threaten personnel. These conditions have drawn increasing attention towards the benefits of thin client systems, which concentrate assets in a central server. The server interacts with remote devices that are free from data and/or applications, which strengthens business continuity, increases efficiency, lowers the cost of system management and improves internal controls.

14 August 2009

NEC Asia, a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation, has officially appointed International Electronics Concern (IEC) as its official distributor for all server solutions in Nepal at its one-day seminar, product launch and press conference held in Kathmandu today.

14 August 2009

NEC Asia, a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation, has officially appointed International Electronics Concern (IEC) as its official distributor for all server solutions in Nepal at its one-day seminar, product launch and press conference held in Kathmandu today.

14 August 2009

NEC Asia, a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation introduces its wide range of superior server systems at its one-day seminar, product launch and press conference held in Nepal today. These NEC innovations are specifically launched to help empower the Nepalese businesses to meet the demands of the financial industry.

3 August 2009

Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, and NEC Corporation (TSE:6701) announced today that the companies will explore the feasibility of jointly supplying low power ion propulsion systems for the U.S. and Japanese aerospace markets. Ion propulsion systems can be used for geosynchronous satellite propulsion systems and deep space missions providing significant advantages over traditional chemical propulsion systems due to the higher fuel efficiency.

29 July 2009

NEC Corporation's development of easy-to-use human interfaces (HI, *1), part of its Central Research Laboratories' global "open innovation" (*2), has taken an important step forward through strengthened cooperation with Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and Carnegie Mellon University.

22 July 2009

NEC Corporation, in cooperation with NEC Indonesia (*), announced today its selection by PT Bakrie Telecom, Tbk, one of the Republic of Indonesia’s leading providers of fixed wireless access services, to expand the provider’s IP networks (*). According to the terms of the contract, NEC will provide a full-turnkey based communications system that includes multi-service edge routers and equipment installation.

16 July 2009

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., NEC Corporation, and its subsidiary NEC TOKIN Corporation, today announced that its joint-venture company – Automotive Energy Supply Corporation (AESC) – has begun trial production of advanced lithium-ion batteries for a wide range of automotive applications at its Zama Operations Center.

13 July 2009

Leading global carriers are currently driving the expansion of new Service Businesses through data centers that provide a wide range of corporate and private services while transitioning into IP and broadband connectivity. NEC contributes to the development of these cloud computing services with its long-standing record of worldwide service installation for leading telecom operators and its experience integrating IT and network technologies, including construction of data centers and service platforms.