Motorola, Inc. () was an American
multinational telecommunications company based in
Schaumburg, Illinois, United States. After having lost $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009, the company split into two independent public companies,
Motorola Mobility
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and
Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011. Motorola Solutions is the legal successor to Motorola, Inc., as the reorganization was structured with Motorola Mobility being spun off.
Motorola Mobility was acquired by
Lenovo
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in 2014.
Motorola designed and sold
wireless network equipment such as cellular transmission
base station
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The term is used in the context of mobile telephony, wireless com ...
s and signal amplifiers. Motorola's home and broadcast network products included
set-top boxes,
digital video recorder
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s, and network equipment used to enable video broadcasting, computer telephony, and
high-definition television. Its business and government customers consisted mainly of wireless voice and broadband systems (used to build private networks), and, public safety communications systems like
Astro
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Entertainment and media
* Astro (South Korean band), a South Korean boy band
* Astro (UB40) (1957–2021), member of the British reggae band UB40
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* Astro (Japanese band), ...
and