Motorola moves mobile division to cable television equipment division?
Something's really wrong here...
Motorola Inc. today announced a reshuffling of its operations, combining its mobile phone equipment business with its cable television equipment division. The Schaumburg-based company's ailing mobile phone division will remain pretty much the same, though it will no longer include Motorola's Good Technology unit.
Motorola bought Good in January for $500 million in an attempt to bolster its sales to business. Good makes software for wireless e-mail systems and is a rival to the dominant BlackBerry e-mail system. It will now be part of Motorola's "Enterprise Mobility Solutions" division. That division will also include Symbol Technologies, which Motorola bought last year for $3.9 billion in another attempt to bolster its sales to businesses. Symbol makes hand held computers and bar code readers.
The enterprise division will also house the Motorola operation that makes communication networks used by law enforcement agencies, a field where Motorola is a market leader. Motorola's third division, now called Home and Networks Mobility division, will include its cable TV and wireless phone equipment divisions. This marks the second time the wireless equipment operation has been reshuffled in 16 months.
So, they put Symbol, which makes handheld computers, in to it's Enterprise Mobility Solutions division, with Good Technologies, but put their own mobile phone business in the the "Home and Networks Mobility" division???
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