provides wireless, broadband, and automotive communications technologies and embedded electronic products worldwide.
It operates in five segments: Personal Communications (PC); Global Telecom Solutions (GTS); Commercial, Government, and Industrial Solutions (CGIS); Integrated Electronic Systems (IES); and Broadband Communications (BC). PC segment offers wireless handsets with integrated software and accessory products.
GTS segment designs, manufactures, sells, installs, and services wireless infrastructure communication systems.
It provides wireless networks, including radio base stations, base site controllers, associated software and services, mobility soft switching, application platforms, and third-party switching for CDMA, GSM, iDEN, and UMTS technologies.
CGIS segment provides customized and commercial communications and information systems.
It manufactures, sells, installs, and services analog and digital two-way radio, voice and data communications products and systems to public-safety, government, utility, courier, and transportation markets.
IES segment offers automotive and industrial electronics systems; telematics systems; portable energy storage products and systems; and embedded computing systems.
BC segment offers broadband products, such as digital systems and set-top terminals for cable television (TV) and broadcast networks; data products, including cable modems and cable modem termination systems, as well as Internet protocol-based telephony products; access network technology, including hybrid fiber coaxial network transmission systems and fiber-to-the-premise transmission systems used by cable TV operators; digital satellite TV systems; direct-to-home satellite networks and private networks for business communications; and data, video, and voice broadband systems.
The company was founded in 1928 as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation and changed its name to Motorola, Inc.
in 1947.
Motorola is headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois.
