Cellular Products Segment
For the year, segment sales increased 10 percent to $11.9 billion, orders increased 9 percent and
segment operating profits were higher.
For the fourth quarter, sales increased 18 percent to $3.6 billion, orders were flat, and operating
profits were higher.
Cellular Subscriber Sector (CSS) sales increased in the fourth quarter in Europe and Pan America,
while they declined in Asia. Orders also increased, led by Europe and Asia, while they were
unchanged in Pan America.
Motorola's MicroDigital M75 cellular telephone for Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA)
systems became commercially available. The phone weighs as little as six ounces. In Japan,
Motorola announced availability of the world's smallest Personal Handyphone Systems (PHS)
phone. Using digital microcellular technology, the phone can switch automatically from being a home
cordless phone to a mobile phone within the PHS public network. CSS also announced that it would
be the first company in the industry to offer its visually impaired customers Braille manuals, large
print manuals and audiotape manuals.
Cellular Infrastructure Group (CIG) sales were higher, led by significant increases in Japan and in the
Pan American region. Sales also were higher in the rest of Asia, but were significantly lower in
Europe. Orders declined, as higher orders in the Pan American region were offset by lower orders
in Europe and Japan and significantly lower orders in the rest of Asia.
CIG was awarded a $260 million contract to deploy a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)
system throughout Israel, and received a contract for a $30 million CDMA system in the U.S.
Installation of China's first CDMA system in Beijing was completed. CDMA-based wireless local
loop, or WiLL(r), system contracts were received in Indonesia and Kuwait.
CIG won contracts to expand existing Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) networks
in China, Sweden and Turkey, and received contracts worth more than $160 million to expand
analog systems in three Chinese provinces.
Segment Sales
(Dollars in millions)
1997 1996(1) %Change
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Cellular Products $11,934 $10,804 10
Semiconductor Products 8,003 7,858 2
Land Mobile Products 4,926 4,008 23
Messaging, Information
and Media Products 3,793 3,958 (4)
Other Products 4,316 4,058 6
Adjustments & eliminations (3,178) (2,713) 17
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Industry segment totals $29,794 $27,973 7
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Cellular products had good growth. Hopefully DIGI won't be negatively
affected tomorrow. 4Q sales growth of 18% was not bad!!! |
