Motorola Close to Breaking Up its Largest Business Unit

Word is Motorola has devised a new plant to break up the major business division of the company, which manufactures and sells set-top boxes and wireless-networking products.

The new plan will have the company spinning off the set-top box unit of the company, while keeping the auction going to sell the wireless-networking business.

Attempts to sell the division as a whole has failed, apparently the reason for separating the two and implementing a different strategy.

Assuming these moves result in success, Motorola will drop in size by over 66 percent, with the company sales dropping to $7 billion from its current levels.

Businesses which would remain under the Motorola brand would include bar-code scanners and equipment used for public-radio systems.

Overall sales from the company stood at $22 billion for 2009.