Motorola makes electronic equipment.
Motorola . The handset division ( along with cable set-top boxes and cable modems ) was later spun off into the independent Motorola Mobility . Motorola Mobility is an American consumer electronics and telecommunications company founded in 2011 as the result of a split by Motorola , formerly owned by Google and now by Lenovo , and based in Chicago , Illinois . 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 .