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So, who the heck is NEC?

So, who the heck is NEC?
  • NEC is not an acronym or an abbreviation.
  • You can call it "neck" if you want to, but it's really "enny see."
  • On the other hand, the name of this website is "neck neck dot com."
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    NEC was originally known as Nippon Electric Company, and was established in Japan in 1899 as a joint venture with Western Electric Company, the manufacturing arm of AT&T. "Nippon" is a Japanese word for "Japan;" and just as Western Electric was the main supplier to AT&T, Nippon Electric was the main supplier to NT&T, the Japanese national phone company. NEC employs more than 150,000 people worldwide, and has annual sales of more than $40 billion. The company produces a wide range of products, and has been a major supplier of business phone systems in the US since the 1980s.  
    ...and what about Nitsuko?
     Nitsuko Corporation started making phone equipment in 1918, and has 3000 employees and sales approaching $1 billion. Nitsuko was a pioneer in the phone system business in the US, making "TIE" brand products that competed with AT&T starting in the 1970s. Nitsuko replaced TIE as US distributor of Nitsuko phone systems in 1991. In 2000, NEC and Nitsuko formed a new company called NEC Infrontia, consolidating Nitsuko Corporation and NEC’s Key Telephone Group.

    ...and what does this have to do with AbleComm?
    AbleComm sold, installed and serviced NEC and Nitsuko phone systems on a limited basis, starting in the mid-1980s. We were so impressed with the DS-series systems, that we established this site in 2003.
  • Our tech support center has working DS and DSX systems, with phones and voicemail. If you need help setting up or troubleshooting your system, we can work with you, step-by-step.
  • We also have an online forum to help you.