On: Huawei stole our tech and created a 'backdoor' to spy on Pakistan, claims IT biz

[fulafel]

> According to the complaint, authorities in Pakistan invited various companies to submit proposals, including Motorola, Nokia, and Huawei

This sounds surprising, are Motorola and Nokia really in the police IT systems business? The common factor among the 3 companies seems to be that they make mobile phone related things.

[seanmcdirmid → fulafel]

Motorola sold their phone business to Google, Nokia sold there’s to Microsoft, Nokia then sold their name to a Chinese phone company and are just involved in telecommunication equipment these days, so is Motorola it seems.

[gostsamo → seanmcdirmid]

Nokia brand for phones is sold to HMD Global which is owned by former Nokia employees.

[fulafel → seanmcdirmid]

Yep, I meant mobile phone network infra, all 3 companies are in that business afaik. And the article talks about some general police IT infra project.

[mschuster91 → fulafel]

At least Motorola is a vendor for German police wireless network TETRA: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_Trunked_Radio#Infr...

[rjsw → mschuster91]

They provide the UK police radio system too [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airwave_Solutions

[lmm → fulafel]

Motorola originally made car radios, and police radio systems were their biggest business for many years.

[rootsudo → fulafel]

Not surprising at all, Motorola still is a market leader for EMS/Police Radios.