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Motorola As Platinum Sponsor At Kurdistan DBX Trade Show 2005

Sep 19, 2005

Middle East business 

Today, Motorola (NYSE:MOT) successfully concluded their participation in the Kurdistan DBX Trade Show 2005 as a Platinum sponsor.

The tradeshow took place from 15 - 18 September in the city of Holer (Erbil), the capital of the federal region of Iraqi Kurdistan which was organized by the Iraqi-American Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

'This was an important milestone on the road to reform and revitalization. We are very satisfied with the broad attention we experienced during the past days, and the valuable contacts we made. Through our participation in this first international trade show in free Iraq, we were delighted to reinforce our long-term commitment to help with the reinvigoration of the country of Iraq and the federal region of Kurdistan', said Mazin Al-Eshaiker, Country Manager for Motorola in Iraq.

'The purpose of Kurdistan DBX Trade Show was to provide opportunities for Iraqi companies to directly interface with foreign companies in Iraq. We are very happy that we could have Motorola as a Platinum Sponsor, to support the importance of DBX Kurdistan,' explained Raad Ommar, CEO of Iraqi-American Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

At the tradeshow, all of Motorola's businesses were showcasing their latest technology, comprising mobile phones, cellular networks, mission-critical communications equipment and connected home solutions. Motorola demonstrated its commitment to making seamless mobility a reality for customers in Iraq, by showing state-of-the-art products for GSM, WLL-CDMA, iDEN, APCO25 and TETRA networks, as well as broadband communications solutions and cable modems.

Motorola and its local partners have been supporting customers in Iraq since April 2003 with mission-critical radio communications for public safety and other applications, as well as equipment that has provided mobile phone service to more than two million subscribers.

Motorola is uniquely positioned to provide timely and effective implementation of IT and communications solutions addressing a broad range of immediate and longer-term needs that include security and public safety, and extend to the utilities sectors (oil, water, and electric power generation and distribution), education and health care institutions (schools, clinics, hospitals), transportation industry (railroad signalling and communications, ports, airports, waterways) and the broader (and evolving) communications sector.

The company helped build communications networks in Northern, Central and Southern Iraq.