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To: Black-Scholes who wrote (41571)	5/26/1999 5:55:00 PM
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NDS to expand to cope with massive EMEA growth 05/26/1999 M2 PRESSWIRE Copyright 1999 M2 Communications, Ltd. All Rights Reserved. LONDON -- Building on significant sales in more than 16 EMEA countries, NDS, the leading provider of digital broadcasting solutions, announced that it is doubling its EMEA sales and pre-sales technical staff. The company's recruitment drive is continuing and NDS is searching for new people with IT Solutions, Communications, and Broadcast sales, consultancy and technical support experience to service its growing EMEA business base. "There are major opportunities across EMEA in digital terrestrial, satel lite and cable television and indeed in growth markets of interactive digital broadcasting and IP networks and the associated business applications and we are increasing our team to service the business we have won and to support emerging markets," says Andy Mathieson, VP of sales and marketing for NDS' global business. "We have always placed great importance on the people we employ and are now looking for talented and professional individuals to help us meet the needs of broadcast and telecommunications customers throughout the EMEA region." NDS has seen significant success in sales for its broadcast management software systems and digital television technology, securing over 90% of the UK market for digital terrestrial transmission. The company has grown its fixed and mobile contribution and distribution market share, securing and growing important contracts with organisations such as the European Broadcast Union (EBU) and BT Broadcast Services. NDS introduced a compre hensive system for data broadcasting to PCs using the satellite infrastructure and is now acknowledged as the market leader in this area. Major European broadcast systems operators, such as NTL in the UK have widely adopted NDS broadcast management software solutions. In addition, the company has played a pivotal technology and integration role in the launch of Sky Digital in the UK. "Our commitment to open systems has resulted in us taking a lead in opening up the broadcast technology market. We believe that broadcasters need to be confident that they can select 'best of class' solutions from the studio to the headend and our support of an open market has led to us being appointed as system integrator for important projects such as UK DTT (NTL)," says Andy Mathieson, VP of sales and marketing for NDS' global business. About NDS NDS, headquartered in the UK, with operations worldwide, provides end-to-end solutions for digital broadcasting through the company's rese arch, development and manufacturing activities. NDS is a recognised leader in digital video compression and conditional access, and has proven systems integration and global support capabilities. NDS is providing its advanced technologies, products and services to many of the current and planned satellite and terrestrial broadcasting systems around the world. In addition, over 12 million subscribers around the globe use NDS conditional access systems to receive Pay-TV satellite and cable services. NDS plays a major part in developing open systems and the international standards for the digital broadcasting arena, providing the technology and market know-how to implement standards such as MPEG -2, DVB, ATSC, SMPTE and DTTV. The company continues to make a major commitment to R&D, with over 700 of its 1,500 plus employees dedicated to its pioneering development work at research centres in Israel, the U.S. and the UK. NDS is a subsidiary of News Corporation (NWS), a leading global media company. NDS has won many awards for technology including an Emmy from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and three Queen's Awards, one for Technology and two for Export. NDS is on the World-Wide-Web at: ndsworld.com M2 COMMUNICATIONS DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR INFORMATION PROVIDED WITHIN M2 PRESSWIRE. DATA SUPPLIED BY NAMED PARTY/PARTIES.