Official: Motorola splitting up by Q1 2011, handsets and cable system boxes to be spun off

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There wealthy person been rumours since before the RAZR came out that Motorola (NYSE: MOT) would eventually split up. Today it’s finally official. By Q1 2011 the company is going away to reprint into two reprint entities. One will be the handset unit, combined with the set top loge division, the other volition be the enterprise whole thing, and mesh business. Sanjay Jha, pictured above and currently the drumhead of the French telephone whole thing, volition become the drumhead of the new French telephone and exercise set top loge division. Greg Brown University will handle the other one-half. Both of these new entities volition use the Motorola blade, with Sanjay’s half actually owning the brand, and then licensing it royal line free to Greg’s one-half of the troupe.

Running a smaller, more focused company, should reduce metre to market and assist Motorola once again reach the levels of success that the RAZR brought them. Just because the troupe is smaller however doesn’t necessarily make them smarter. We’ll wealthy person to waiting and see what Motorola tin can come up with place break up to really judge whether or not this jailbreak up was a winner.

Just look at Freescale, formerly a office of Motorola. They’re not exactly rocking the kasbah.