Motorola reported Q3 2010 sales of $4.9 billion , up 13 percent from the third quarter a year ago. Financial results related to the portion of the Company's Networks business expected to be acquired by Nokia Siemens Networks are reported as discontinued operations. GAAP net earnings in the third quarter of 2010 were $109 million, or $0.05 per share, compared to $12 million, or $0.01 per share, in the third quarter 2009. On a non-GAAP basis, including discontinued operations, earnings in the third quarter of 2010 were $380 million, or $0.16 per share, exceeding the company's guidance of $0.10 - $0.12 per share.
"In the third quarter, Motorola Mobility showed positive momentum across the business, with Mobile Devices reaching profitability for the first time in over three years and Home continues to maintain its leadership position," said Sanjay Jha, Motorola co-chief executive officer and Motorola Mobility CEO. "Mobile Devices' DROID™X continues to sell extremely well, and we have had several other successful smartphone launches globally, including the DROID 2, the MING series in China, as well as a well-received introduction of our enterprise-ready DROID™ PRO. As we continue to make progress across the organization, we remain focused on further improving our financial results and pursuing the delivery of best-in-class software and hardware experiences to consumers and business users."
Greg Brown, Motorola co-chief executive officer and Motorola Solutions CEO, said, "Our Enterprise Mobility Solutions business continues to deliver very solid financial results. In enterprise markets, we continued to experience double-digit sales growth in all four geographic regions we serve. Additionally, our public safety business remains resilient. Going forward, we are focused on next-generation public safety and enterprise solutions and services. I am excited about the opportunities ahead as we approach our targeted separation."
Some highlights:
Mobile Devices segment sales were $2.0 billion, up 20 percent compared with the year-ago quarter. The company shipped 3.8 million smartphones with a total of 22 smartphones introduced during 2010.
Home segment sales were $912 million, up 5 percent compared with the year-ago quarter. The company recently introduced a hosted switched digital video solution that provides independent operators with the bandwidth reclamation and management capabilities needed to launch HDTV, VOD, 3DTV and interactive TV applications.
Enterprise Mobility Solutions segment sales, which now includes the iDEN infrastructure business, were $1.9 billion, up 9 percent compared with the year-ago quarter. The company recently secured a $50 million federal government grant to expand broadband access to communities in the San Francisco Bay Area, including a private broadband LTE network for public safety. The company also announced a strategic alliance with Ericsson for an LTE-based solution that will be integrated with Motorola's Next Generation Public Safety Broadband solution.
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with Comcast is not primarily about Internet traffic peering but about the cable operator trying to defend its closed, cable TV distribution from online video alternatives, said Level 3 Communications in a statement released on Friday. Level 3 asserts that Comcast wants "to use its local access network dominance as leverage to force Level 3 to pay for traffic requested by Comcast customers that already pay Comcast for access to that same content. Having sold broadband access services to its customers, Comcast wants to sell the same service again to Level 3 and other networks connected to Comcast."
During this test, Etisalat & Huawei verified the co-existance of GPON and 10G GPON over the current OLT platform, passing all of the required tests for successful co-existence of GPON and 10G GPON in an established ODN.
Agri-Valley Communications, a rural internet service provider, has selected Nokia Siemens Networks for a regional rural LTE deployment using 700 MHz spectrum. The contract includes core and radio elements as well as network management and related services.
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has collaborated with LSI to develop an advanced carrier-grade solution for mobile backhaul and Carrier Ethernet. The solution combines LSI's multicore communications processors and IP Infusion's ZebOS Network Platform and is standards-compliant and pre-tested for interoperability.
recently shipped its 30 millionth IP phone to one of the world's largest financial institutions -- HSBC. The company released its first IP phone 12 years ago.
to its Managed Services portfolio, enabling multinational organizations to place Verizon Ethernet services in a managed network environment containing just those services, or in combination with other network services for a complete end-to-end, global managed network solution.
its Starbucks Card Mobile payment test to nearly 300 company-operated stores in New York City, and Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island. The Starbucks Card Mobile App for BlackBerry smartphones, iPhone and iPod touch devices enable customers to pay electronically. 
introduced a high-density 10 Gigabit physical layer switch that can be used to automate topology management in test labs and data center network monitoring applications. The High Speed Media Cross Connect (HS MCC) system fills the requirement for greater number of 10G ports in one system, by providing 144 simultaneous bi-directional, uni-directional or multipoint mappings. It uses a 10.7 Gbps switching matrix allowing 10 Gbps signals to be switched over a single path across the backplane vs. grouped and switched on multiple paths as is typical in traditional physical layer switch design.
-- a next-generation integrated OLT (I-OLT) platform supporting GPON, active Ethernet (point-to-point), and full traffic aggregation capabilities -- all from a single chassis. The new I-OLT, which is a member of the company's Hi-FOCuS family, is being deployed by a number of operators including Openreach, part of the BT Group. 
-- including all flavors of smartphones and tablets -- both for enterprise users and consumers. At a press event in San Francisco, company officials unveiled the Junos Pulse Mobile Security Suite, which provides a number of tools for securing and managing smartphones against a wide range of threats.
The processors, which are aimed at secure and virtualized cloud computing and the borderless enterprise applications, deliver performance is up to 10 times greater than alternative multi-chip solutions within the same power envelope. 
an increase of 12.6% compared with the $1.604 billion reported for the second quarter of 2010 and an increase of 44% compared with the $1.254 billion reported for the third quarter of 2009. Net income (GAAP) was $327 million, or $.60 per share (diluted).
AT&T will initially deploy 15 telepresence rooms at GSA office locations across the United States, creating a Managed Network Service (MNS) Telepresence. The telepresence rooms will be installed at the 11 GSA regional headquarters and 4 Washington, D.C. area locations, and will be available for use by the GSA and other federal agencies. The task order was awarded under the GSA Networx Enterprise contract vehicle.
