Effnet: Factum Electronics Enters Two New Markets For Digital Broadcasting

Stockholm, Sweden - Factum Electronics, the supplier of digital multimedia broadcasting equipment, recently announced that it has won contracts to supply the Czech network operator TELEKO, s.r.o. and the French network operator Towercast with digital broadcasting systems. The deliveries under the two contracts are based on the latest version of Factums' DAB/DMB systems and enables Towercast to handle DMB audio and visual radio broadcasting and TELEKO, s.r.o. to provide digital radio to its listeners.

"We are very pleased with this development of DAB and DMB in Europe and the fact that two new countries are added to the list of DAB/DMB countries. Earlier we have announced deliveries of our equipment to several European countries including Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK," says Kenneth Lundgren, Managing Director, Factum Electronics AB.

"Finally, the transition to digital broadcasting has begun in the Czech Republic and in France and, as expected, DAB and DMB are joint winners. The DAB based standards are the most cost effective technologies for digital broadcasting and Factum supports them all," says Hans Runesten, Chairman of Factum Electronics AB and CEO of Effnet Holding AB.

SOURCE: Factum Electronics