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Motorola a global leader in mobile communications, has announced the appointment last month of Mr. Ritchie Ma as General Manager of its Mobile Devices Business in Hong Kong effective from March 11, 2008.

Drawing from his many years of experience in the industry, Mr. Ma will lead Motorola’s Mobile Devices Business in Hong Kong, driving local retail strategy and energizing the business to meet and exceed customers’ needs. In this capacity he will also be representing Motorola in nurturing relationships with local operators and other key customers.

Mr. Ma joins Motorola with a demonstrated track record in the telecommunications industry. Prior to joining Motorola, he served as General Manager, Brand Marketing for Hong Kong CSL where he managed the business for One2Free, New World Mobility and Prepaid. He has also held senior marketing and communications positions at Telstra International, SmarTone and Hongkong Telecom.

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Motorola today announced that it has achieved DOCSIS® 3.0 certification for the Motorola SURFboard® SB6120 and SBV6220 cable modems and DOCSIS 3.0 bronze qualification for the Motorola BSR 64000 cable modem termination system (CMTS)/edge router. The suite of customer premises equipment (CPE) and headend solution products successfully completed feature testing as part of the CableLabs® Certification Wave 58, based on the DOCSIS 3.0 CableLabs Project specification.

DOCSIS 3.0-based technology, including downstream channel bonding and IPv6, has been integrated into Motorola’s SURFboard CPE and CMTS to help cable operators offer whole-home, high-bandwidth media services. The Motorola SURFboard SB6120 and SBV6220 modems support DOCSIS 3.0 data functionality and are backwards compatible with DOCSIS 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 standards, allowing operators to deploy them today even ahead of an infrastructure upgrade to enable new advanced services.

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Verizon Wireless, builder and operator of the nation’s most reliable wireless network, announced the MOTO Q(TM) 9c will be available in the company’s online store and in Verizon Wireless business sales channels on May 9. Customers will be able to purchase the newest member of Verizon Wireless’ MOTO Q family at Verizon Wireless Communications Stores, including those in Circuit City, in the coming weeks.

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Motorola today announced its trial of a TETRA (TErrestrial Trunked RAdio) communications network in Poland within the chambers of the Wieliczka Salt Mine, 130 meters underground. The critical communications network has been pushed to the extreme through a war game simulation as part of the “Freedom and Security” conference in Poland. The system provided a secure radio network both: on surface and underground.

Attendees at the conference were able to emerge themselves in a crisis management war game scenario and see how the private radio network can be used during an emergency or crisis situation. The demo allowed users to experience the Dimetra IP Compact solution, putting communication networks to the test under the simulated crisis pressures.

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Motorola today announced the latest software enhancement for the CherryPicker Application Platform (CAP-1000). In addition to MPEG-4 Rate Shaping, the CAP-1000 now offers MPEG-2 rate shaping, ad insertion and statistical multiplexing. Building on the industry proven CherryPicker® platform, the CAP-1000 offers an unparalleled level of performance, density, reliability and stability.

As operators look to maximize bandwidth usage, deploy additional digital services and drive new revenue streams with advanced advertising solutions, the CAP1000 delivers advertising insertion alongside MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 rate shaping capabilities for both standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) video, all in a dense single rack unit device. The Motorola CAP-1000 v2.0 supports hundreds of simultaneous video streams, with near instantaneous failover redundancy capability.

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Motorola is working with Advanced Info Service (AIS), the largest mobile operator in Thailand, to conduct trials of mobile WiMAX solutions. The trials will enable AIS to gain insight into the next generation personal wireless broadband services.

AIS started trials over Motorola’s WiMAX Access Point-400 (WAP-400) platform in Bangkok and Lamlukka in the first quarter of 2008. The operator is studying performance of real-life applications over the mobile WiMAX network, and customer usage models in metropolitan, suburban and rural areas.

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The Enterprise Mobility business of Motorola today announced its research results from an enterprise wireless LAN (WLAN) study[1] analyzing the deployments and requirements of North American enterprise WLAN decision-makers. More than half of all the survey respondents said they have either fully or partially deployed an enterprise WLAN with an additional 31 percent trialing or planning to deploy WLANs by 2010.

Nearly 20 percent of the polled enterprises said their IT spending on WLAN technologies will be 5 percent higher than last year’s budgeted expenditure. Despite the current soft economic conditions worldwide, enterprises are still prioritizing enterprise WLAN deployments and upgrades. Only 4 percent of survey respondents said they would reduce spending on WLAN technologies this year.

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Motorola announced the addition of the PTP 500 Series of Wireless Ethernet Bridges to its portfolio of MOTOwi4™ Fixed Point-to-Point (PTP) solutions. The PTP 500 Series is ideal for deployments that require secure, high-performance backhaul or broadband connectivity and deliver carrier grade availability in obstructed, long-distance and harsh weather environments. Operating in the 5.4 and 5.8 GHz bands at Ethernet data rates up to 105 Mbps and distances up to 155 miles (250 km), the PTP 500 solutions give network operators and service providers reliable, midrange throughput for non-line-of-sight (NLOS) connectivity at an attractive price point.

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Motorola today celebrated shipping its one millionth digital cable set-top box (STB) to Spanish cable provider ONO. To mark the milestone, Motorola designed a silver STB which was presented to ONO’s chief executive officer Richard Alden during the Cable Congress 2008 in Madrid, Spain.

“We are proud to have achieved this milestone with ONO which is testament to our relationship and the strength of Motorola’s cable and video solutions which clearly fit ONO’s evolving business now and into the future,” said Joe Cozzolino, corporate vice president & general manager, Motorola Home & Networks Mobility EMEA. “We have the solutions to help providers like ONO deliver compelling new personal media experiences and we look forward to celebrating many more milestones with ONO.”

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Motorola today introduced the Motorola Netopia® 7000 Series VDSL2 Gateways. The 7000 Series gateways are designed to deliver high-speed data and IPTV services over ultra-broadband networks that are easy for service providers to install and manage. Through the use of advanced VDSL2 technology and Motorola’s industry-proven embedded routing software, these new gateways are ready for the extreme demands of next-generation service offerings such as high definition TV (HDTV).

The Motorola Netopia 7000 VDSL2 Gateways are available in three different configurations in order to address the worldwide demand for VDSL2 technology. By offering solutions based on Broadcom® with PhyR™, Conexant® and Ikanos Communications® chipsets, Motorola can support the wide variety of network configurations that are being deployed by the world’s largest service providers.

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