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November 2006

ST ELECTRONICS ACHIEVES DOUBLE RECOGNITION FROM CISCO SYSTEMS


Gold Partner Certification and Best Customer Satisfaction Achievement Award from Cisco Systems

Singapore, 20 November 2006 — Singapore Technologies Electronics Limited's (ST Electronics) wholly-owned subsidiary, ST Electronics (Info-Comm Systems) Pte Ltd (STEE-InfoComm) has been awarded the dual honour of Cisco Systems' prestigious Gold Partner Certification and Best Customer Satisfaction Achievement Award 2006. Gold Certified Partners are recognised for having some of the industry's best trained network engineers with a high level of expertise in planning, designing, implementing and supporting Cisco Network Solutions.

These awards are a strong vote of confidence from Cisco Systems recognising that STEE-InfoComm has delivered on its commitment to providing customers with world-class technical support and expertise, service and solutions. With competent engineers who have the right expertise, STEE-InfoComm provides quality customer service essential to help customers meet their business challenges.

This is the result of ST Electronics' concerted effort to support customers in achieving business excellence in their respective industries. To achieve this status, the company had to meet the stringent personnel quality, training requirements, strong customer satisfaction focus, as well as specialisation and post-sales support requirements set down by Cisco Systems.

Cisco is pleased with the commitment to customer success shown by ST Electronics. This is demonstrated further by ST Electronics excellent customer satisfaction rating, the highest in Singapore. Cisco's success in Singapore is in large part due to the efforts of highly committed partners like ST Electronics. As the network becomes even more fundamental to organizations and individuals, Cisco and its partners are in a position to make a difference to the way they work, live, play and learn.

Craig GLEDHILL,
Managing Director, Cisco, Singapore and Brunei

In providing our networking, communications and e-Government solutions, we see our people as our main asset. Their skills levels must be continually honed so that they can bring value and the best service solutions to our customers. The Cisco Gold Partner Certification has clearly shown that we have achieved service standards that are world-class. Achieving such a high customer satisfaction rating is certainly encouraging and will spur us to further improvement.

LAU Thiam Beng President,
ST Electronics (Info-Comm Systems)

With this twin recognition from Cisco Systems, ST Electronics is bringing the best end-to-end solutions, through its skilled personnel and quality support capabilities to its customers.

ST Electronics (Info-Comm Systems) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore Technologies Electronics Limited. It is a leading solutions house in the Asia Pacific region for infocommunications, advanced electronics and intelligent transportation businesses. From design and development to production, system integration, maintenance and enhancement, it has become a one-stop solutions house and a strong partner for its commercial, government, defence and homeland security customers worldwide. Its core business areas include emergency response and integrated security & surveillance systems, e-Government infocommunication and enterprise solutions, intelligent traffic and advanced fleet management systems, infocomm security products and solutions, and managed operations services. Please visit www.stee.stengg.com

ST Electronics, the electronics arm of ST Engineering, delivers innovative system solutions to government, commercial, defence, and industrial customers worldwide. It specialises in the design, development and integration of advanced electronics and communications systems, such as broadband radio frequency and satellite communication, e-Government solutions, information communications technologies, rail and traffic management, real-time command & control, training and simulation, intelligent building management, and information security and mobile commerce solutions. Please visit www.stee.stengg.com.

Media contact:

Magdalen Loh
AVP / Head, Corporate Communications
Singapore Technologies Electronics Limited
Tel: (65) 6413 1788 / 9822 3321
Fax: (65) 6484 8840
Email: magloh@stee.stengg.com