[Motorola schedules its first German UMTS infrastructure field trials for early 2002. ]

Wiesbaden, Germany -- Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced its first Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) infrastructure field trials in Germany will occur in early 2002, based upon a series of successful UMTS tests since September 2001at the Motorola laboratory based in Wiesbaden, Germany. Motorola will use base stations that conform to European 3GPP Release 99 UMTS specifications and standards for these trials.

"Motorola is well positioned in the implementation phase of the UMTS mobile telephony standard. Our long and successful track record in General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) technology, as proven with the commercial implementation of a nationwide GPRS network for a major German mobile operator, is of significant value in our UMTS research, development and network planning," said Jerry Chard, account director for Motorola's Global Telecom Solutions Sector. "Our innovative engineers in Europe and Germany are confidently working towards the successful early implementation of UMTS based on our tests at the Wiesbaden laboratory."

Current lab tests at the Wiesbaden facility already have achieved transfer rates of more than 144 Kbps. The focus of the tests concentrate on data applications using live video streaming, MP3 music downloading, interactive video games and live office applications such as Windows NetMeeting via UMTS.

Motorola is leveraging its Node B, that builds upon the compact size and leading edge performance of its Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) base transceiver station (BTS), to deliver a UMTS base station that is extremely small, light and more efficient.

Motorola's Personal Communications Sector currently has UMTS mobile phone prototypes available for testing. Since signing a contract worth an estimated US$700 million for 3G wireless devices earlier this year, Motorola has made steady progress interoperability testing with key infrastructure vendors. Motorola plans to deliver commercial 3G terminals, supporting GSM, GPRS and UMTS by the third quarter of 2002.

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