NEC Ringtones

NEC Corporation is a multi-national information technologies company headquartered in Minato-key, Tokyo, Japan. NEC's Electron Devices business includes semiconductors, displays and other electronic components.
Company formation
Maeda handled company sales.
It was the common battery switch board supplied by NEC. NEC started exporting telephone sets to China in 1904.
Expansion of the Japanese telephone service
NEC Sales fell sixty percent between 1912 and 1915.
In 1919, NEC started its first association with Sumitomo. As part of the venture, NEC provided cable manufacturing equipment to Sumitomo Densen.
Four of NEC's factories were destroyed, damaging 105 of NEC's engineers and workers. NEC participated in the installation of the automatic switching systems, ultimately becoming the general sales agent for ATM. NEC developed its own Stronger-type automatic switching system in 1924, a first in Japan.
Radio broadcast
NEC started their radio communications business in 1924. NEC imported the broadcasting equipment from Western Electric. NEC established a radio research unit 1924. NEC started developing electron tubes in 1925.
Photo-telegraphic Equipment
Carrier Transmission Equipment
In 1929 Nippon Electric provided Japan's Ministry of Communications with the A-type switching system.
NEC began transistor research and development in 1950. NEC produced the first crossbar switching system in Japan. NEC began joint research and development with NTT of electronic switching systems the same year. NEC established Taiwan Telecommunication Company as their first postwar overseas joint venture in 1958. In 1959 NEC demonstrated their first transistorized computer, the NEAC-2201. NEC de Mexico, S. A. de C. V., NEC do Brazil, S. A., NEC Australia Pty. Ltd. were established between 1968 and 1969. NEC supplied Comsat Corporation with the SPADE satellite communications system in 1971. In 1972, Switzerland ordered a NEC satellite communications earth station. NEC also designed an automated broadcasting system for the Japan Broadcasting Corporation the same year. NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH was also established. NEC America Inc. opened a plant in Dallas Texas to manufacture PABX and telephone systems in 1978. In 1980, NEC created the first digital signal processor, the NEC µPD7710. NEC Semiconductors (UK) Ltd. was established in 1981, producing VLSI’s and Leis. NEC introduced the 16-bit PC-9800 series personal computer in 1982. NEC changed its English company name to NEC Corporation the same year. NEC Information Systems, Inc. started manufacturing computers and related products in the United States in 1984. In 1993 NEC's asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) switching system, the NEAX61 (Nippon Electronic Automatic Exchange) ATM Service Node, went into service in the United States. The NEC C&C Research Laboratories, NEC Europe, Ltd. were opened in Germany in 1994. NEC (China) Co, Ltd. was established as a holding company for Chinese operations in 1996. NEC celebrated their 100th anniversary in 1999. NEC Electronics Corporation was separated from NEC in 2002 as a new semiconductor company. NEC Laboratories America, Inc. (NEC Labs) was created in November, 2002 as a merger of NEC Research Institute (NECI) and NEC USA’s Computer and Communications Research Laboratory (CCRL). They are now one of the worlds leading mobile phone producers, especially in the ASIA pacific region.