Motorola and Cleartone Announce Agreement for Enhanced TETRA Gateway / Repeater Mobile Radio

Basingstoke, England (ots/PRNewswire) -

- Relationship Enhances Motorola's TETRA Portfolio and Provides
Wider Market Access to Proven Cleartone TETRA Technology

Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced a long-term development
and supply relationship with Cleartone Telecoms Ltd, UK, to design
and manufacture an enhanced Gateway / Repeater Mobile Radio that will
work seamlessly with Motorola's existing TETRA portfolio. The
addition of the Gateway / Repeater mobile radio to Motorola's
extensive TETRA terminal portfolio will deliver significant benefits
and added features to public safety, military, transportation and
other TETRA radio users through a common user interface and feature
set, resulting in more effective training and support delivery.

The use of Gateway / Repeater Mobile radios can deliver
operational benefits for many users through the enhancement of radio
coverage in certain situations. In addition to operating as a
standard TETRA Mobile radio, the Gateway / Repeater can enhance
communications through two additional operating modes:

- As a Gateway, rebroadcasting and extending communications
from the TETRA network (TMO) to radios operating off-network in
"back-to-back" mode (DMO).

- As a Repeater, extending the range of DMO communications by
rebroadcasting, or repeating signals from radios in DMO operation.

Motorola will distribute the new Gateway / Repeater Mobile to all
TETRA markets though its extensive distribution channel. Customers
will further benefit from Motorola's global product support and
training programmes. The new product will initially operate in the
380-430 MHz frequency band and will be available during the second
half of 2006.

Charles Couchman, product manager, Motorola TETRA subscribers,
comments: "This product is an important addition to Motorola's
product portfolio. This new product is designed to complement
Motorola's existing products, and builds on the success of our TETRA
portfolio. We are extending our broader radio products by working
with Cleartone and this deal recognises not only the important
contribution made by Cleartone to TETRA, but Motorola's commitment to
deliver complete solutions to its customers."

Ed Balding, Managing Director, Cleartone, said: "Working with
Motorola provides an exciting opportunity for us to provide a broader
range of services to our existing customers, and to reach new ones in
the process. Two companies working closely together such as this can
only benefit the TETRA user community by providing seamlessly
integrated products.

About TETRA

TErrestrial Trunked RAdio (TETRA) is an open digital trunked radio
standard defined by the European Telecommunications Standardisation
Institute (ETSI) to meet the needs of the most demanding professional
mobile radio users. www.motorola.com/tetra

About Motorola

Motorola is known around the world for innovation and leadership
in wireless and broadband communications. Inspired by our vision of
Seamless Mobility, the people of Motorola are committed to helping
you get and stay connected simply and seamlessly to the people,
information, and entertainment that you want and need. We do this by
designing and delivering "must have" products, "must do" experiences
and powerful networks -- along with a full complement of support
services. A Fortune 100 company with global presence and impact,
Motorola had sales of US $36.8 billion in 2005. For more information
about our company, our people and our innovations, please visit
www.motorola.com

About Cleartone

Cleartone Telecoms is a UK company that has been manufacturing and
supplying VHF and UHF radio communications products for the emergency
services both in the UK and overseas for over 25 years. The Company
is located South Wales where all product design, development,
manufacturing and sales are based. Product portfolio consists of
Tetra mobile and associated products together with mobile data
systems, automatic number plate recognition systems (ANPR) and a
range of analogue / digital mobile video systems.

MOTOROLA and the stylized M Logo are registered in the US Patent &
Trademark Office. All other product or service names are the property
of their respective owners. (c) Motorola, Inc. 2006.

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Media Contacts: Suzanne McDermott-Swan, Motorola,
+44-(0)1256-484-505, suzanne.mcdermott@motorola.com Sam Bevans /
Andrea Carter, Firefly Communications, +44-(0)207-386-1542,
sam.bevans@fireflycomms.com or andrea.carter@fireflycomms.com

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