Nokia Siemens Networks’ acquisition of most of Motorola’s cellular networks business may be the last move in a long game of consolidation in the industry. The deal includes operations that supply carriers around the world with cellular networks of all kinds and had sales of $3.7 billion in 2009. Motorola will retain most of its business making equipment for the iDEN network used by Sprint Nextel. The growing reach of Chinese vendors, such as Huawei and ZTE, has also driven prices down, encouraging vendors to get bigger and spread out their costs.”]
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