Toshiba Corporation announced that it completed delivery of a major order for digital terrestrial TV transmission systems for the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), Korea's public service broadcaster. The order, for 36 digital terrestrial TV transmission systems to be installed in 12 cities, includes 72 units of digital TV transmitters.
Sung-Man, Jin, manager of the transmission infrastructure team at KBS, said, "I am delighted that Toshiba completed delivery for us as scheduled, in spite of challenging circumstances, including a very short lead time and high-targeted engineering requirements. This achievement reflects the technological capabilities that Toshiba has cultivated through its experience and accomplishments. With continued good relationship with Toshiba, I expect we can offer high-quality digital broadcasting service to viewers when installation is completed."
Toshio Aoki, senior manager of international operations department, broadcasting & network systems division at Toshiba, stated, "We are very pleased to have completed this demanding contract and also very pleased to work with KBS. We believe that our previous on-time supply of reliable, high performance equipment to the Korean market, plus the technological capabilities of our new transmitters, persuaded KBS to select our systems. With completion of this contract for 72 transmitters, we have now supplied over 100 Toshiba digital transmitters to Korean broadcasting companies."
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