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To: J Fieb who wrote (25514)	11/20/1997 12:54:00 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Cube inside... NextLevel Systems' Satellite Data Networks Business Provides Magnitude MPEG -2/DVB Compression System to P.T. Satelit Palapa Indonesia ÿ 11/20/97 PR Newswire (Copyright (c) 1997, PR Newswire) ÿ System Enables Live Broadcast of The 19th South East Asia Games SAN DIEGO, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- NextLevel Systems, Inc. (NYSE: NLV) announced today that its Satellite Data Networks business has provided P.T. Satelit Palapa Indonesia (SATELINDO) with an MPEG -2/DVB digital satellite uplink encoding system and SR-3200 integrated receiver/decoders. The NextLevel technology enabled SATELINDO to broadcast live the recent 19th South East Asia Games held in Jakarta, Indonesia. The uplink for this event was located next to the National Stadium, utilizing the Palapa C-2 36 MHz C-band transponder. "SATELINDO is proud to launch a new broadcast service using NextLevel's digital compression equipment. We can now offer programmers the ability to lease satellite broadcast capability for specific time periods and special events," said "Nur" Nurhandayanto, Senior Manager, Business Development, Satellite Department, SATELINDO. "During the South East Asia Games, we were able to transmit different events to different countries at different times by authorizing and deauthorizing the IRDs. With the Statmux(TM) digital compression feature, we confidently broadcasted eight channels for sporting events simultaneously at the height of the event." "SATELINDO is a key satellite operator in the region and is our first MPEG -2/DVB customer in Indonesia. They had a requirement for cost effective conditional access and our BasiCrypt(TM) system was able to meet their requirement," said Douglas Light, Vice President, Magnitude Worldwide Sales, NextLevel's Satellite Data Networks business. NextLevel Systems, Inc. is a leading worldwide supplier of systems and components for high-performance communications networks delivering video, voice and Internet/data services. Created in the recent restructuring of General Instrument Corporation, NextLevel Systems comprises three businesses that are leaders in distinct global growth markets: the Broadband Networks Group, based in Hatboro, Pa.; the Satellite Data Networks business, based in San Diego, Calif.; and Next Level Communications, based in Rohnert Park, Calif. NextLevel Systems, headquartered in Chicago, posted revenues of $1.8 billion in 1996 and employs more than 8,000 people worldwide. Visit our web site at www.nlvl.com

To: J Fieb who wrote (25514)	11/20/1997 10:27:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

The New Orleans launch represents the first step in BellSouth's plan to deliver home entertainment service to its customers. BellSouth now offers video service selectively in multiple markets in the Southeast reaching more than 400,000 homes. In 1998, BellSouth plans to begin offering its home entertainment service in areas covering more than two million homes in Atlanta, Orlando, Jacksonville, Daytona and Miami. John Rieman, Have you seen anything as far as when these other cities will start deployment? Does this news release by Zenith suggest all is ok for Divicom on the Americast project? Thanks. This is just BellSouth's deployment. Americast in Ameritech's area is more agressive. Look for MI, OH, Chicago deployments in the 1st 1/2, '98. Cable's got to stay ahead of these telcos. They are finding local telephone harder than they thought. And the GI boxes will be obsolete by May. And yes, this is a good sign that the boxes announced in August, 1996, are indeed shipping in volume. The next thing to look for is ZE adding more capacity for manufacturing. The Mexico plant can put out 60K units(I think) per month. When we see more capacity, we'll be appoarching 200K per Q.