Motorola makes electronic equipment.
Motorola ( [ ˌmoʊtəˈroʊlə ] ) was an American multinational telecommunications company founded on September 25 , 1928 , based in Schaumburg , Illinois . Motorola designed and sold wireless network equipment such as cellular transmission base stations and signal amplifiers . Motorola Solutions , Inc. is an American data communications and telecommunications equipment provider that succeeded Motorola , Inc. , following the spinoff of the mobile phone division into Motorola Mobility in 2011 . Telecommunication . 20th and 21st century technologies for long-distance communication usually involve electrical and electromagnetic technologies , such as telegraph , telephone , and teleprinter , networks , radio , microwave transmission , fiber optics , and communications satellites .