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Motorola Strengthens Network Services to Tap Burgeoning Telecommunications Opportunities

Posted on: Monday, 19 September 2005, 12:00 CDT

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill., Sept. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Motorola, Inc. announced today that it is advancing its position as a telecommunications services provider by bolstering its suite of Network Services. The comprehensive Network Services portfolio broadens Motorola's commitment to help operators evolve to next generation networks and deliver the promise of seamless mobility worldwide.

The plan includes investing in practice-based service offerings that benefit from best-in-class tools and applications, leveraging the expertise of dedicated services employees rooted at the regional market level to serve the global marketplace, fostering an ecosystem to attract best-of-breed partnerships and expanding its solutions value proposition to deliver multi- vendor capabilities. Motorola's practice-based approach touches on every aspect of the network and services delivery -- from planning, designing, deployment and support, to managing of network and services.

"As the telecommunications industry advances with multimedia services and increased mobility, so will the inherent demand for experts who are capable of enhancing the communications experiences and enabling service providers to maximize the value of their network assets," said Adrian Nemcek, executive vice president of Motorola, Inc. and president, Motorola Networks. "Motorola is well positioned to address these demands with its proven ability to integrate, deploy and manage complex networks worldwide, as well as deliver the scaleable platforms and applications services while operationalizing the vision of seamless mobility."

Motorola's seamless mobility practice comprises a rich ecosystem of solutions and tools to enable the rapid deployment of seamless end-to-end solutions across all wireless and wireline technologies. Proven expertise in integration across heterogeneous access technologies, networks, applications, systems and devices ensures robust, elegant solutions tailored to individual operators' environments and needs. Motorola's core competencies in strategic consulting, business modeling, system integration and solution architecture enable operators to leverage and deliver differentiated services that give their customers the freedom of seamless mobility.

Opportunities across the entire network continuum have led the company to expand its multi-vendor services approach within four distinct practices:

1. Applications Services Practice: Strengthens an operators' ability to offer a dynamic portfolio of content rich, personalized services utilizing standard creation tools powered by a scalable, service delivery platform called Motorola Global Applications Management Architecture (GAMA). This allows a secure, flexible architecture to launch, provision, and manage a suite of applications so operators can offer exciting and innovative applications to their markets faster and easier. Operators have the flexibility to pick and choose from the suite and rapidly launch applications in their own network or take advantage of Motorola hosting capabilities. 2. Managed Services Practice: Enables operators to access world-class capabilities, along with the ability to tap resources not internally available, to better control costs and focus on critical business functions. Managed Service options include: staff augmentation; out-tasking for specific projects like planning and implementation; build-operate-transfer for building and operating a network for a limited time before transferring control to the operator; or full outsourcing for controlling entire network operations. 3. Support Services Practice: Focuses on total network care that helps to ensure 24/7 operations with high network availability and operational efficiencies in a multi-vendor network environment. This practice ensures peak network performance and availability through comprehensive offerings including network security, on-site maintenance and operations consultancy, engineer training, and patented optimization tools that use real-time network data. 4. Systems Integration Practice: Solves the challenges of assimilating diverse networks-wired, wireless and mobile broadband-from initial design, site identification and acquisition through managing the engineering, construction and acceptance testing of all elements. As networks converge, the integration of business and operational processes becomes one of the fundamental success factors that is addressed by this practice to enable service providers to gain and sustain competitive advantage.

"With the price of network elements declining year over year, network services represent a growth opportunity for most equipment vendors, including Motorola Networks," said Shiv K. Bakhshi, Ph.D., IDC director of wireless infrastructure research. "Wireless operators are striving to build customer- centric organizations that allow them to deliver, quickly and efficiently, innovative data services to their customers as a means of growing their revenues, stemming churn and attracting new subscribers. They are increasingly looking to their infrastructure vendors to become their partners in delivering and maintaining efficient networks and network solutions that allow the operators to deliver differentiated services at promised Quality of Service levels."

Motorola's suite of network optimization solutions and services enables operators to leverage their existing infrastructure investment to boost revenue opportunities. "Motorola was the best end-to-end solutions provider with a proven track record in systems integration and network support," said Heather Wee, responsible for Development and Deployment of Mobile Data Deployments for Maxis Communications Berhad (Maxis).

Motorola is poised to deliver a diverse services portfolio that will differentiate and increase revenues for telecom operators. Motorola Networks currently delivers services solutions to all of the top 12 global operators, and has customers in more than 80 countries.

About Motorola Network Services and Applications Management

Motorola's Network Services and Applications Management is a line of business within Motorola Networks that combines innovation, knowledge and human capital to deliver solutions that are robust, operational and integrated into existing operator environments to enable smooth and cost-effective transition to next generation networks. Motorola has taken a "practice-based" approach and built a complete service portfolio upon key elements of Support, Integration, Applications and Management. For more information please visit: http://www.motorola.com/content/0,,5114-8158,00.html

About Motorola

Motorola is a Fortune 100 global communications leader that provides seamless mobility products and solutions across broadband, embedded systems and wireless networks. In your home, auto, workplace and all spaces in between, seamless mobility means you can reach the people, things and information you need, anywhere, anytime. Seamless mobility harnesses the power of technology convergence and enables smarter, faster, cost-effective and flexible communication. Motorola had sales of US $31.3 billion in 2004. For more information: http://www.motorola.com/.

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