Motorola makes electronic equipment.
Motorola . Motorola designed and sold wireless network equipment such as cellular transmission base stations and signal amplifiers . 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 and Dimetra . 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 . 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 .