HISTORY OF MOTOROLA

Years Events
1928, September 28th Galvin Manufacturing Corporation was founded in Chicago, Illinois, USA by Paul V. Galvin (left) and Joseph
Galvin

first Motorola brand car radio was introduced by selling it to police departments and municipalities
1937 entered the home entertainment business and introduced home entertainment radios
1940 the worlds first handie-talkie was developed and it was used during WWII.
1943 worlds first FM portable two-way radio for the U.S. Army Signal Corps
1947 Galvin Manufacturing Corporation was renamed to Motorola, Inc.
The companys first TV model, the 1947 Golden View model, was sold for over 100,000 units.
1952 Motorola Canada Ltd., first international subsidiary company in Toronto, Canada to produced radios and
televisions.
1953 Motorola Foundation was established
1955 M logo was stylized.
1958 started with Explorer I Satellite Radio, Motorola provided NASA communications equipment for decades.
1959 Motorola International, S.A., was established to conduct licensing and manufacturing for international
markets. An office opened in Zurich, Switzerland. AISYAH SOLEHAH
 HISTORY OF MOTOROLA (cont)
Years Events
1960 A portable 19-inch TV model, the 1960 Astronaut television was introduced.
1967 Quasar TV made a debut to the market
1969, July first word from the moon transmitted to Earth as a Motorola radio transponder aboard the Apollo 11 lunar module.

1974 made AN EXIT of TV business

1975 Motorolas transponder involved in Apollo-Soyuz "Handshake in Space" docking mission. The mission between
America and Soviet space teams.
1976 new international HQ moved to Schaumburg, Illinois, USA.
1983 World's first commercial portable cellular phone.
1986 Worlds best-selling pager, the Bravo Pager, was introduced
The popular Six Sigma was invented and became a global standard.
1988 Awarded with Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.
1989, April launched smallest and lightest model on the market, MicroTAC Personal Cellular Telephone.
1994 introduced iDEN Digital Radio, the worlds first commercial digital radio system.
1995 worlds first two-way pager, the Tango pager, was introduced.
1996 introduced StarTAC wearable cellular telephone, the world's smallest and lightest AISYAH SOLEHAH
 HISTORY OF MOTOROLA (cont)
Years Events

1999 DEN i1000plus handset was introduced as the world's first to combine a digital phone, two-way radio,
alphanumeric pager, Internet microbrowser, email, fax and two-way messaging.
2000 worlds first GPRS cellular system, Motorola Timeport P7389i model, was introduced.
2002 launched worlds first wireless cable modem gateway.
2003 A760 Cellular Phone was released. The world's first handset to combine a Linux operating system and Java
technology.
Introduced MOTORAZR V3 Cellular Phone
2006 introduced Motorola MING smart phone in Asia.
2007 acquired Symbol Technologies, Inc. to provide products and systems for enterprise mobility solutions.
2008 Worlds First LTE 700 MHz Data Demonstration
Gregory Q. Brown, CEO of Motorola, Inc. and then, CEO of Motorolas Broadband Mobility Solutions
business and Co-CEO of Motorola alongside Dr. Sanjay K. Jha, which is CEO of Motorolas Mobile Devices
business.
2010 Motorola sold its cellular-infrastructure business to Nokia Siemens Networks for $1.2 billion.
2011, January Motorola split into two companies, Motorola Solutions (legal successor of the original Motorola) and
Motorola Mobility (a spin-off)
AISYAH SOLEHAH BINTI MD YUSOF CEB 150002
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Years Events

August 15th Google announced it would purchase Motorola Mobility for about $12.5 billion and May 22nd 2012, Google
acquired Motorola Mobility
2014, October 30th Google sold off Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.91 billion.

AISYAH SOLEHAH BINTI MD YUSOF CEB 150002

AISYAH SOLEHAH BINTI MD YUSOF CEB 150002
BACKGROUND OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY
Started when pigeons, drums and smoke signals were used to relay
messages from one point to another.
Telegraph system were created because of difficulty to communicate
between someone far.
1875 Alexander Graham Bell invented telephone.
The Bell System once used by many local companies in USA until
technology takes over and people managed to communicate
wirelessly (1983).
1996 - the Telecommunications Act was passed, which deregulated
the telecommunications industry.
The computer industry and telephone industry are closely linked.
Now, companies specializing in voice over Internet protocol (VoIP)
services (ie: Skype) are involved in telecommunications industry. They
allow users make calls via Internet. AISYAH SOLEHAH BINTI MD YUSOF CEB 150002
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