Motorola will split into two firms within the first quarter of 2011

17th February, 2010 by adina
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Motorola has made public a more precise timetable for its plans to split the company. Intending to correct rumours, the officials of the company declared that this one would split into two firms next year, within the first quarter. The first firm would include the Mobile Devices group and the Home section, covering media hubs as well as similar end-to-end devices. The second firm would include the enterprise and networking fields.

Motorola’s co-CEO Sanjay Jha would become the CEO of the Mobile Devices and Home groups. The other CEO, Greg Brown, would be in charge with the leading of the more business-oriented group. Both groups would use the Motorola brand. Although only the first firm would own the name of the current company, an agreement states that it would license the brand to its sister firm.

Although the company is splitting, Motorola’s health is claimed to be better and better. The big successes the company had with the Cliq and the Droid late last year demonstrates things are going into the right direction. Motorola already launched five phones, the Backflip and the Devour included, as well as three southeast Asia-oriented handsets including the MOTOROI. At least twenty smartphones are scheduled to be launched in 2010, according to the company.

Initial plans for this split were presented two years ago and were a reaction to the rapidly sinking mobile market share. At that time, Motorola had only a few smartphones and depended significantly on Windows Mobile although the platform was openly rejected by many in favour other more efficient platforms like iPhone, BlackBerry and Symbian. Most of Motorola’s gains in market share are attributed to the more advanced and more recent Android. Furthermore, the company almost vowed not to launch any Windows Mobile devices for the whole year 2010.


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