Motorola to Supply UK Emergency Services With Digital Radio Service as Part of British Telecom's 2.5 Billion-Pound Contract with the UK Government

Business Wire, March 8, 2000

Business Editors

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 2000

Motorola (NYSE:MOT) has been awarded a multi-hundred million pound contract by British Telecom (BT) to provide a nationwide system infrastructure based on the TETRA standard -- TErrestrial Trunked RAdio -- for the UK's Public Safety Radio Communications Project (PSRCP).

Motorola will team up with integration partner TRW to provide BT and the UK emergency services with a world-leading TETRA radio service.

The PSRCP radio system will provide the police and other emergency services with seamless and integrated voice and data communications across emergency organisations and geographical boundaries.

Motorola will provide a 'one stop shop' for the supply, integration and maintenance of the PSRCP radio network that covers each of the 53 police services throughout England, Scotland and Wales. The PSRCP network will span more than 2500 sites and will be implemented across the forces in a five-year rollout.

"PSRCP is the largest TETRA public safety contract awarded to date, and this win serves to confirm Motorola's position as the leading supplier to public safety organisations world-wide," said John Doughty, Motorola Vice President. "This is the sixth TETRA infrastructure contract announced by us in the last month and is a major endorsement for the TETRA standard," he continued.

Motorola was awarded the contract to provide the radio infrastructure for the PSRCP pilot with the Lancashire Police Service in April 1999. The pilot system is currently at Motorola's systems integration centre in Hampshire ready for shipment. Testing of the service will begin in Lancashire this summer, after which the first of six Lancashire divisions will begin migration onto the live service.

Notes for editors

MOTOROLA

Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) is a global leader in providing integrated communications solutions and embedded electronic solutions. Sales in 1999 were $30.9 billion.

Motorola has been operating in the UK since 1967 and employs more than 10,000 people in research, development, manufacturing and marketing. The Company is the largest manufacturing employer in Scotland and is one of the UK's top ten exporters.

For more information, please visit:

Motorola NEW Internet Media Centre http://mediacentre.motorola.com

Motorola http://www.motorola.com/tetra

TETRA MoU: http://www.tetramou.com/

BT Quadrant website: http://www.quadrant.org.uk

PITO website: http://www.pito.org.uk