DENVER, United States-Motorola and Glenayre Technologies signed a memorandum of understanding that, if fulfilled, will license Glenayre to manufacture all Motorola’s paging infrastructure-and could effectively herald Motorola’s exit from the paging infrastructure manufacturing business.
“We need to focus on the things we do best,” said Amanda Dahlke, spokeswoman for Motorola’s Paging Systems Group. She said Motorola intends to shift attention away from paging infrastructure in favor of increased attention to paging subscriber devices, protocol enhancements and applications development.
Dahlke said the extent of that wind-down depends on how license agreement negotiations go with Glenayre and how much of the infrastructure business Glenayre is willing to take on.
For its part, Glenayre indicated it is more than willing to accept the entire infrastructure business, saying Motorola’s wind-down will be complete.
Mark Smalley, Glenayre vice president of investor relations, said Motorola likely will license Glenayre to make all FLEX-family infrastructure products.
