Motorola and National Cable Television Cooperative Reach Major Set-Top Agreement

Motorola and National Cable Television Cooperative Reach Major Set-Top Agreement

NCTC Members to Launch Motorola's High-Definition and Digital Video Recording Services Set-Top Platform

ATLANTA, April 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) today announced that the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC) has placed an order for all-digital, high-definition (HD) and digital video recording (DVR)-capable Motorola set-tops, in the consortium's first-ever volume set-top purchase.

The announcement was made at The 2006 National Show, the cable industry's largest trade show, held at the Georgia World Congress Center (Atlanta, Ga.), where Motorola is showcasing its digital video solutions for the "Mobile Me" at Stand # 1537.

The NCTC members are jointly making this purchase in a move to speed the delivery of digital services to the connected homes of the over 8 million subscribers they service nationwide. A programming and hardware buying cooperative, NCTC represents more than 1,000 independent cable operators and their 6,500 individual systems. Facing heavy consumer demand for advanced features, NCTC companies will rely on Motorola set-tops to introduce digital video recording (DVR) and offer high-definition television (HDTV).

Cooperative members will deploy the latest in Motorola digital video technology, including the DCT2500E home media network-ready core interactive set-top, the DCT6412 and DCT3412 high-definition digital video recorders, and the just-announced Motorola DCT3080 standard-definition digital video recorder.

"Motorola has proven to be a critical partner to independent cable companies with a wide range of scalable digital video solutions," said Mark Bishop, senior vice president of hardware for NCTC. "This set-top agreement gives our members yet another competitive advantage and increases the value that we as a cooperative can offer to more than 8 million subscribers nationwide."

Jeff Abbas, NCTC President and CEO added, "Going forward, NCTC will use this contract as the model for additional hardware agreements. By 'baking a bigger pie,' all of our members benefit significantly from pricing discounts that start on day one of the agreement."

"We are committed to the NCTC and the strength it lends to independent operators nationwide. Through the NCTC we can help drive the adoption of new connected home services and create revenue-building opportunities for a huge number of cable providers," said John Burke, Motorola corporate vice president and general manager, digital video solutions. "Our digital video platforms not only offer technologies that consumers expect today, they also create a foundation for greater connectivity in the future."

About the NCTC

The National Cable Television Cooperative is a not-for-profit, member- operated purchasing organization. The Co-op's mission is to reduce the operating costs of its member cable companies. The Co-op negotiates and administers master affiliation agreements with cable television programming networks, cable hardware and equipment manufacturers and other service providers on behalf of its member companies.

About Motorola

Motorola is known around the world for innovation and leadership in wireless and broadband communications. Inspired by our vision of Seamless Mobility, the people of Motorola are committed to helping you get and stay connected simply and seamlessly to the people, information, and entertainment that you want and need. We do this by designing and delivering the "must have" products, "must do" experiences and powerful networks -- along with a full complement of support services. A Fortune 100 company with global presence and impact, Motorola had sales of $36.8 billion in 2005. For more information about our company, our people and our innovations, please visit http://www.motorola.com/ .

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CONTACT: Paul Alfieri of Motorola, Inc., +1-609-575-8835 (on-site at
NCTA), paul.alfieri@motorola.com , or Dan Mulvenon of NCTC, +1-913-208-6536
(on-site at NCTA), dmulvenon@cabletvcoop.org

Web site: http://www.motorola.com/

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