Per this snip, Thales is a big outfit (apparently Euro also) .
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(Thales) The Group employs 60,000 people throughout the world and generated revenues of 10.3 billion euros in 2004
Thales and QUALCOMM entered into a co-development program to combine Thales' digital exciter and signal correction experience with QUALCOMM's FLO modulation technology to create a FLO compatible exciter. The ULTIMATE transmitter with embedded FLO exciter will provide an extremely reliable solution for distribution of high quality streaming video and audio content to consumer's handheld devices.