Icom

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Icom, the wireless communication experts

Icom Inc. is a company located in Osaka, Japan, and is a manufacturer of wireless communication products. Since Icom's establishment in 1954, we have had a long record as a trusted manufacturer of land mobile radio, amateur radio, marine radio, navigation products, aviation radio and communications receivers.

Icom quality and Icom reliability

Over 50 years of engineering and production excellence is a part of every Icom product. Using the latest equipment, Icom radios are tested to pass rigorous in-house tests as well as environmental tests to the US Military standard 810 specifications.

Made in Japan quality

Icom is a rare example of an electronics manufacturer theat has not shifted production to lower cost countries, but kept its production base 100% in Japan. The Wakayama Icom plant has an advanced production system to produce small volume/multi-model wireless communication products.

Icom, a world brand name

Icom is today recognized as a reliable 2-way radio brand name around the world. Our land mobile radios are used by many professional organizations all over the world, like the United States Department of Defense and the U.S. Marine Corp. who chose Icom as the first Japanese company to supply radios to them.

Icom's worldwide network

Icom products are sold in over 80 countries in the World. Icom has an international sales and service network around the world, including sales subsidiaries in the US, Australia, Germany, Spain and China. Icom is here to support and service our products and your communication needs.

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NEWS RELEASE January 17, 2011

Fylde Micro and Icom Inc. dPMR™ Mode 3 Collaboration

Blackpool, England/Osaka, Japan – January 17, 2011  - Fylde Micro Ltd (Blackpool, England) and Icom Incorporated (Osaka, Japan) officially announce the joint development of Mode 3 dPMR™ equipment.

This partnership brings together the pioneering work undertaken by Icom in 6.25 kHz narrowband digital protocol development with the unrivalled experience amassed by Fylde in the development of rugged and reliable trunked radio systems over the past 25 years.

The aim is to provide customers with high quality trunked and networked radio systems ranging in size from a single channel right through to wide area networks of several hundred sites.

Fylde and Icom are both founding members of the dPMR MoU group, and have been major contributors to the content of the ETSI dPMR standards. This collaboration seeks to bring to reality the results of this standards making work in the form of the system products to be offered. It will also be the first example of multi-vendor, interoperable dPMR equipment, which is one of the goals of the ETSI open standards architecture that dPMR is.

About dPMR™:

dPMR is digital radio protocol specifically targeting highly functional solutions by using low cost and low complexity technology. dPMR is a narrowband (6.25 kHz) FDMA technology that is 100% digital that offers many forms of voice and/or data applications.

dPMR exists in a range of functional levels. Tier 1 dPMR446 license-free, Tier 2, Mode 1 licensed peer to peer, Mode 2 base station and repeater use and Mode 3 multi-site wide area networked systems.

The FDMA protocol specified in both TS102 490 and TS102 658 ETSI standards complies with the European Harmonised Standard EN301 166-2 for use in 6.25 kHz channels.

More information on dPMR can be found at the following web site:  http://www.dpmr-mou.org/

About Fylde Micro Limited. (http://www.fyldemicro.com/) 
Fylde Micro Ltd. designs, manufactures, produces, sells and supports trunked radio infrastructure as well as offering design consultancy on associated terminal  design. With products in over 60 countries, some operating 24/7/365 for over 20 years, Fylde equipment has a reputation for integrity, performance and outstanding value for money. Fylde is committed to bringing dPMR™ digital solutions wherever advanced radio communications is required at reasonable cost.

About Icom Incorporated (http://www.icom.co.jp/world) 
ICOM Inc. has been a world leader in radio communications for over 40 years. One of a few organizations that manufacture a total radio line-up of Land Mobile, Marine, Amateur, Air Band and Communications Receivers, ICOM's technological prowess is legendary. ICOM continues to lead the industry with the development of digital technologies to provide the future in radio communications to the world. In this respect, Icom was proud to be the first manufacturer to offer a license-free dPMR446 (Tier 1) product to the market, and will continue to provide dPMR™ solutions into the future.

NOTE

This news release is the presentation of matters regarding the above-mentioned companies to the general public, and was not prepared for the solicitation of investments.
Forward-looking statements contained above are based on currently available information and therefore actual results may significantly differ depending on various factors.
Please do not make any material judgments based on the statements contained herein.
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