Motorola swallows another British cellular firm

ANOTHER PLUCKY British cellular specialist, TTPCom, has suffered the same fate as handset manufacturer, Sendo. It looks set to be acquired by handset giant, Motorola.

TTPCom was essentially a provider of low cost handset design platforms. Its partners include the likes of Intel, Analog Devices, Renesas, Skyworks and Silicon Laboratories.

The company's GSM protocol stacks have been utilised by vendors as diverse as RIM for the Blackberry and LG for the KG800 Chocolate handset.

TTPCom had developed AJAR as a cellular platform which separated the diverse functions which a handset performs - making it much easier to port applications to low cost cellular devices.

The company had products covering all the major future GSM/W-CDMA technologies including HSUPA and DVB-H. Which is probably why Motorola wanted it.

Ron Garriques, president, of Motorola's Mobile Devices has welcomed the employees of TTPCom to Motorola and look forward to a quick and seamless integration upon closing."

If the INQ were a Motorola competitor, we'd be worried. µ