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> According to the complaint, authorities in Pakistan invited various companies to submit proposals, including Motorola, Nokia, and Huawei This sounds surprisi

> According to the complaint, authorities in Pakistan invited various companies to submit proposals, including Motorola, Nokia, and Huawei This sounds surprising, are Motorola and Nokia really in the police IT systems business? The common factor among the 3 companies seems to be that they make mobile phone related things.

seanmcdirmid 5y ago
Motorola sold their phone business to Google, Nokia sold there’s to Microsoft, Nokia then sold their name to a Chinese phone company and are just involved in telecommunication equipment these days, so is Motorola it seems.
- gostsamo 5y ago
  Nokia brand for phones is sold to HMD Global which is owned by former Nokia employees.
- fulafel 5y ago
  Yep, I meant mobile phone network infra, all 3 companies are in that business afaik. And the article talks about some general police IT infra project.
lmm 5y ago
Motorola originally made car radios, and police radio systems were their biggest business for many years.
rootsudo 5y ago
Not surprising at all, Motorola still is a market leader for EMS/Police Radios.
mschuster91 5y ago
At least Motorola is a vendor for German police wireless network TETRA: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_Trunked_Radio#Infrastruktur-Anbieter https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_Trunked_Radio#Infr...
- rjsw 5y ago
  They provide the UK police radio system too [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airwave_Solutions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airwave_Solutions